With Christmas around the corner, holiday food menus are being planned with frenzy. From the cheesy potato casserole to the ham and pumpkin pie, there’s a lot of cooking to be done. Before you finish off your dessert menu, consider making a Christmas cake for your family. What can be better than delighting your taste buds and filling your home with the aroma of a wonderful cake in the oven? Not much! So, to give you a few ideas we have compiled five Christmas cake ideas for you to consider:
1)Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Cake
This award winning cake is delicious and easy to fix. Your family will think you have spent hours on this recipe. When in reality, it took you less than ten minutes. First, start off with your favorite chocolate cake mix. Then, all you do is add 1 cup of pumpkin pie filling. Fix the cake according to the box recipe. The end result will be a delicious pumpkin spiced chocolate cake. For an even tastier treat, top it with whipped cream or a cream cheese frosting.
2)Red Velvet Pizazz
Another stunning cake choice is a beautiful red velvet cake. The stunning red combined with a green tinted frosting, will create a wonderful combination of colors. You can choose to make the cake from scratch or find a yummy boxed cake mix. Be sure to add red and green sprinkles to the top of the cake for an even more festive look!
3)Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cake
What’s Christmas without Gingerbread? Then how about a gingerbread cake? The spices of the cake will have your home smelling like a holiday wonderland. The great thing about gingerbread cake is that it tastes great by itself or you can compliment the flavor by serving the warm gingerbread cake alongside a giant scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. Your family will love this introduction to your dessert menu!
4)Spice Cake Cups
If you are looking for a truly unique dessert idea, consider making spice cake cups for your Christmas get together. Spice cake has a wonderful aroma and a softly sweetened flavor. You can make a microwave friendly spice cake and cook them up in giant mugs. Add a little homemade whipped cream to the top and you should be good to go!
5)Triple Chocolate Cake
Another fun cake option and one that will please the chocolate lover in your life, is a triple chocolate cake. This is another fun, yet simple recipe. Take your
favorite chocolate cake mix and add the following: 1 small package of chocolate pudding and 1 cup of chocolate chips. Cook according to the package directions and serve warm. This cake is delicious by itself or a heaping spoonful of whipped cream.
These five Christmas cake ideas are meant to tempt your upcoming holiday menu. Hopefully, you will choose one that will delight every taste bud at your dinner table. So have fun planning, cooking and tasting these one of a kind Christmas cakes! Who knows, you may be starting a new tradition for your holiday menu plans.
Photo credits: Chocolate Pumpkin Cake by Chocolate-Dessert-Recipes.com/flickr; Red Velvet Cake by Kimberly Vardeman/flickr
Event planner Sylvia Carlton loves to embellish her party themes with fabulous desserts–such as Heather Barranco Dreamcakes, a standout in the niche New York custom cakes business.