CANDIED PRETZEL CAKE

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Sweet, salty and super festive for any winter get-together.

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 recipe Chocolate Chip Cake
1 recipe White Vanilla Frosting
35 large pretzel rods
2 (12-oz.) bags white candy melts (4 c.), melted
Candy: blue and white sanding sugar; silver, white, and blue dragées; and crushed blue starlight mints

Steps:

  • Make Chocolate Chip Cake according to
  • recipe. Trim domed tops of
  • two of the layers. Place
  • one trimmed layer on a cake
  • stand or serving platter and top with 2/3 cup frosting.
  • Repeat, then place domed
  • layer on top. Chill while
  • decorating pretzels. Line a baking sheet with
  • parchment paper. Trim
  • pretzel rods with a serrated
  • knife so they will reach just
  • above the top of the cake
  • (about 4 inches). Dip the cut
  • end of one pretzel in melted
  • candy melts, leaving the
  • other end uncoated. Decorate
  • with sanding sugar, dragées,
  • and starlight mints. Place on the prepared baking sheet.
  • Repeat with remaining pretzels, candy melts, and candy;
  • reserve any unused candy
  • melts. Let set at room temperature or in the fridge. Frost the top and outside
  • of the cake with White Vanilla Frosting. Attach decorated
  • pretzels around sides of cake. Remelt reserved candy
  • melts. Spread in a thin layer,
  • about 1/8 inch thick, on the
  • back of a baking sheet. Chill
  • until solid, 4 to 6 minutes.
  • Use a flat metal spatula or
  • bench scraper to scrape
  • up the chocolate, creating
  • curls and shards. Sprinkle
  • over top of cake.

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