CANDY CANE STRIPED CAKE

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How to make Candy Cane Striped Cake

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 5

Ingredients

a 9x13-inch cake
2 cups whipping cream
4 Tbsp. confectioners sugar
5 candy canes
2 sheets index weight paper

Steps:

Cool the cake completely. Pour the whipping cream into a bowl and stir in the sugar. Whip until soft peaks form. Dollop it onto the cake and smooth it to the edges to make droopy, fluffy snow drifts.
Break up 5 or 6 candy canes into pieces. Then put the pieces into a mortar and pestle and smash until it's partly dust and partly tiny pieces. You can instead crush the canes by putting them into a ziplock bag and smashing them with a rolling pin but I find that the bits of candy cane are sharp and puncture tiny holes in the bag. I don't think any plastic gets into the mix but you do end up with candy dust on your counter.
Cut out a bunch of 1/2 inch thick strips from the paper.Lay a strip of paper diagonally across the middle of the cake, so that it goes from one corner to the other. You may need two strips, overlapping at the center of the cake, to get all the way across the cake. Working from that middle strip toward a corner, lay strips of paper on the cake leaving a 1/2 inch gap between strips. Use a ruler to evenly place the strips. Press the strips down lightly so that they stick to the whipped cream. Repeat working from the middle strip towards the other corner.
Sprinkle the cake with the candy cane crumbs. I like a fine dusting but you can put as much or as little as you'd like.
Starting at a corner of the cake, gently grasp two ends of a strip of paper and lift it up and off the cake. Discard. If any bits of candy fall off the paper and onto what is supposed to be an undusted white stripe, use a small spoon to remove it or to nudge it over to a dusted area. Remove all the strips of paper in this way until they are all off of the cake.
If you have any candy cane dust left, sprinkle it around the edge of the cake plate.