Bone Cake | Homemade Halloween Cake Recipe | Hy-Vee

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Bone Cake

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Recipe Data

24
Servings
30min
Prep
30min
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    Description

    You won’t be afraid to make this bone cake for Halloween when you order Hy-Vee Bakery round vanilla cakes. Use broken pretzel rods dipped in white chocolate to make the bones.

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    Ingredients
    Serves 24
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    4 (7-inch) Hy-Vee Bakery round white vanilla cakes
    20 Hy-Vee pretzel rods
    2 ½ c. white chocolate melting wafers , divided
    80 Hy-Vee miniature marshmallows
    3 c. Hy-Vee creamy white frosting, divided

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    • Medium microwave-safe bowls
    • Spatula

    Directions

    1. For bones: break pretzel rods into various lengths to make 40 pieces. Microwave ½ cup white chocolate in small microwave-safe bowl on HIGH at 30-second intervals or until melted, stirring each time. Use the melted chocolate to attach 2 mini marshmallows to both ends of each pretzel piece; let dry. Transfer pretzel bones to a wire rack in a rimmed baking pan. 

    2. Microwave an additional 2 cups of white chocolate melting wafers in medium microwave-safe bowl on HIGH at 30-second intervals or until melted, stirring each time. Pour melted white chocolate over pretzel bones to coat; let dry. 

    3. To assemble: Place 1 cake layer on a cake stand. Spread 1/2 cup Hy-Vee creamy white frosting on top. Repeat with 2 more cake layers. If necessary, secure layers with cake dowels. Place remaining cake layer on top. Frost top and side of cake with an additional 2 cups of frosting. Press pretzel bones into frosting on cake. 

    Nutrition facts

    Servings

    290 Calories per serving

    Amounts Per Serving

    • Total Fat: 12g
    • Cholesterol: 5mg
    • Sodium: 160mg
    • Total Carbohydrates: 42g
    • Protein: 2g

    Daily Values

    0%
    Iron 6%
    0%
    Calcium 2%
    0%
    Vitamin D 0%
    0%
    Potassium 2%