ELF CAKE RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan) mark 4. Grease and line a 30.5 x 20.5cm rectangular baking tin with parchment paper.  Put the butter in a large bowl, and heat in the microwave on a high setting for 30sec bursts until melted. Add the remaining cake ingredients and beat together with a handheld electric whisk until combined to make a very runny batter.  Pour into the prepared tin, and bake for 30 minutes or until risen and springy to the touch. Leave to cool in the tin completely.  When the cake is cool, flip on to a serving board or plate and peel off the parchment.  Make poke sauce. Poke holes all over the cake using the handle of a wooden spoon. Put the Biscoff spread in a pan and heat gently until melted. Pour the sauce over the cake so it fills the holes. Leave until completely set (about 30 minutes).  Colour half your tub of vanilla frosting green in a small bowl, then colour half of what’s leftover red in a separate bowl. Leave the remaining quarter uncoloured.  Spread the green frosting over the top two thirds of the cake. Spread some of the red over the remaining bottom third to cover. Put the remaining red and white frostings into separate piping bags (no need for piping nozzles) and pipe a red collar at the top of the cake. Pipe white striped lines over the red at the bottom of the cake to make trousers, and a small semi circle at the top of the collar for the neck-hole. Add a belt made from black liquorice and use a little white frosting to stick yellow sweets to the liquorice to make the buckle. Pipe circles of red to make buttons down the centre [or you could use some kind of circular red or yellow sweets]. If you want a neater edge to your collar, add pieces of red strawberry lances/whips to give sharper lines.

Steps:

• Prepare and bake cake according to package directions using a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Cool completely on a wire rack., Crumble cake into a large bowl. Add jam and mix well. Shape into 1-1/2-in. balls. Place on baking sheets; insert sticks. Freeze for at least 2 hours or refrigerate for at least 3 hours, until cake balls are firm and easy to handle., Insert cake pops into a plastic foam block to stand. In a microwave, warm vanilla frosting and peanut butter; stir until smooth. Spoon over cake pops., Using fudge, additional vanilla and red frostings (tint desired amount of additional vanilla frosting red), pipe hair and faces; use a leaf tip for ears. Top each with a chocolate or candy cane-flavored kiss hat. Let stand until set.