Marble Maple Falling Leaves Cake

Fall Cake Recipe
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1 Review
Calling all maple lovers! This cake is frosted with a creamy maple frosting and easily decorated with fruit and nuts.
45 min
Prep Time
1:05
Total Time
15 servings

Ingredients

Cake

1 (15.25- to 16.5-ounce) package
butter recipe yellow cake mix
1/3 cup
Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
1 cup
water
3
large Land O Lakes® Eggs
1 teaspoon
maple extract
1 ounce
unsweetened baking chocolate, melted

Frosting

1/3 cup
Land O Lakes® Butter
2 tablespoons
firmly packed brown sugar
3 1/2 cups
powdered sugar
1 (8-ounce) package
cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon
maple extract

Decorations

Chocolate decorator icing
Sweetened dried cranberries, golden raisins, chopped dried apricots and chopped pecans, as desired
Candy ghosts or owl, if desired

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 13x9-inch cake pan; set aside.
  2. Combine all cake ingredients except melted chocolate in bowl; beat at medium speed until well mixed. Place 1 1/2 cups batter into another bowl. Add melted chocolate; stir until well mixed.
  3. Spread remaining batter evenly into prepared pan; drop spoonfuls of chocolate batter over batter in pan. To marble, swirl chocolate batter with table knife. Bake 28-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely.
  4. Place 1/3 cup butter into bowl; microwave 20-30 seconds or until melted. Add brown sugar; continue microwaving 30-45 seconds or until sugar is dissolved. Add all remaining frosting ingredients to butter mixture; beat at low speed until powdered sugar is moistened. Beat at high speed until creamy and smooth. Frost cooled cake.
  5. Use 1/8-inch round or leaf decorating tip to pipe chocolate icing onto cake in tree-shape. Decorate with dried fruit and nuts for leaves. Add candy ghost or owl, if desired. Refrigerate until serving time.

Recipe Tips

- To make a plain maple cake, omit unsweetened chocolate. Pour all cake batter into prepared pan.

- Read more about this recipe on Recipe Buzz® Blog.

Nutrition Facts (1 serving without decoration)

Calories
410
Cholesterol
80mg
Carbohydrates
57g
Protein
5g
Fat
19g
Sodium
360mg
Dietary Fiber
g

Recipe Comments and Reviews

Rating

I made this cake for our fall office party. It was wonderful! Very fallish, and everyone there loved it! I will definitely make again!

Posted November 02, 2011 by Jennifer

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