Christmas Crumbs Cake

The holidays are here! A great time to make a savory and flavorful cake. Christmas cake is a wonderful way to celebrate the season. Soft, moist, and a flavorful blend of Christmas flavors make an ideal dessert to share this season with family and friends.

Christmas Cake

During the holiday season, Christmas cakes are delicious desserts that are made and enjoyed. Traditional Christmas cake is often a fruitcake. The cake is often made with a variety of dried fruits, covered with frosting, and decorated with Christmas-theme decor. Nowadays there are numerous types of Christmas cake recipes. During the holiday seasons, being creative and feeling inspired comes naturally for a lot of people. There is something special about the cool weather, holiday meals, and decorations that bring out the inspiration to create an appetizing dessert cake during the holidays.

Creating a Christmas cake recipe does not have to be hard, though there are cakes that can be hard to recreate. Christmas cakes can be made as one layer, the classic three layers, or can be made with as many layers as one desires. Other designs for cakes include bundt, log, or roll-shaped Christmas cakes. Different Christmas designs and frosting colors can be used for cakes. The ideas for Christmas cakes are numerous, and the holiday season is a great time to create a decorative, showstopping holiday cake or a simple one-layer cake with Christmas sprinkles.  

Christmas Crumbs Cake

For this year, I wanted a different type of cake that did not look like many other neat Christmas cakes. I was going for more of a messy style cake look. The crumbs make the cake look uneven and uniquely different. This cake is a blend of white and red velvet cake mix. The crumbs were made from the cakes with a food processor and then coated unevenly onto the cake.

Ingredients Details

Cake mixes: White cake mix, and red velvet cake mix
Cooking oil: Vegetable oil; alternative canola oil
Eggs: White eggs
Water: Filtered water
Food coloring: Green food coloring

Cream Cheese Frosting
Sugar: Powdered sugar

Butter: Unsalted cream butter; alternative margarine

Cheese product: Cream cheese

Milk product: Heavy whipping cream; alternative half & half

For this Christmas crumbs cake, there are several steps to make this cake. The cake mixes were purchased at my local supermarket. Generally, these cake mixes are simple enough to make. The directions on the box are not very challenging and make making cakes at home simple. 

Instructions Details 

Cake Mixes

White Cake

1. In a bowl, add the white cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil, and water. 
2. Mix until fully combined. 
3. Grease one cake pan with butter.
4. Then sprinkle cake mix. (This helps to remove the baked cakes from the cake pans.)
5. Add half the white cake mix to the pan.

Green Cake

1. In a bowl, add the remaining white cake mix to a bowl. Then add green food coloring. Mix until combined. 
2. Grease one cake pan with butter.
3. Then sprinkle cake mix. 
4. Add the green cake mix to the cake pan.

Red Velvet Cake

1. In a bowl, add the red cake mix, egg, vegetable oil, and water. 
2. Mix until fully combined. 
3. Grease one cake pan with butter.
4. Then sprinkle cake mix. 
5. Add the red velvet cake mix to the cake pan.

Bake the Cakes

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Bake the cakes for 25-30 minutes. 

Cream Cheese Frosting

In a bowl, add the powdered sugar, butter, cream cheese, and heavy cream. Use a mixer to mix the ingredients. Mix the ingredients until creamy.

Cake Trimming and Cake Crumbs

White Cake

1. Let the white cake cool. Remove the cake from the cake pan. 
2. Trim off the cake dome.
3. Add the dome cake scraps on a plate.
4. In a food processor, add the cake dome scraps. Process until the cake scraps become crumbs.
5. Add the crumbs to a plate.

Red Velvet Cake

1. Let the red cake cool. Remove the cake from the cake pan.
2. Trim off the cake dome.
3. Add the dome cake scraps on a plate.
4. In a food processor, add the dome cake scraps. Process until the cake scraps become crumbs.
5. Add the crumbs to a plate

Green Cake

1. Let the green cake cool. Remove the cake from the cake pan.
2. Trim off the cake dome.
3. Add the dome cake scraps on a plate.
4. In a food processor, add the cake scraps. Process until the cake scraps become crumbs.
5. Add the crumbs to a plate.

Assemble the Cake and Add Cream Cheese Frosting

1. 1st layer: On the cake stand, add the white cake. Apply the cream cheese frosting evenly to the top.
2. 2nd layer: Add the red velvet cake over the frosted white cake. Apply the cream cheese frosting evenly to the top.
3. 3rd layer: Add the green cake over the frosted red velvet cake. Apply the cream cheese frosting evenly to the top.
4. Cake: Coat and cover the entire cake with cream cheese frosting.

Cake with Crumbs

1. Add and sprinkle the white cake crumbs to the cake.
2. Add and sprinkle the red cake crumbs to the cake. 
3. Add and sprinkle the green cake crumbs to the cake. 

Cake Slice

It is a good idea to dip the knife used for cutting the cake in water. This helps the knife to glide easily through the cake. Nice and even cake slices are often cut from knives dipped in water. Many people used hot water. I generally just dip the knife in lukewarm water, and this helps to get a nice cake slice too. 

 

Storage

Once the cake is cool, it can be stored in the refrigerator. Storage containers, aluminum foil, and plastic wraps are a few ways to store a cool cake in the refrigerator. For long-term cake storage, the cake can be placed in the freezer. The cake can be stored in freezer Ziploc bags or wrapped in aluminum foil. 

Thoughts

This cake was a delicious Christmas dessert cake. It was soft and flavorful. My goal for this year's Christmas cake was to create a unique cake style with a messy Christmas design. The great thing about cakes is that there are so many styles and designs. Anyone can create their own cake style and be able to share it with the world online. I think it's okay not to create a flawless-looking cake but more of a unique and different cake that can be set apart from the seas of cakes. 

Recipe

Ingredients

Cake Mixes

White Cake and Green Cake

• 1 white cake mix
• 2 eggs 
• ¾ cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup water
• 3 tablespoons green food coloring

8x8 Cake Pans

• 1 teaspoon butter
• 2 teaspoons cake mix

Red Velvet Cake

• ½ red velvet cake mix
• 1 egg
• ⅓ cup vegetable oil
• ½ cup water

8x8 Cake Pan

• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 teaspoon cake mix

Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cream cheese package
• ½ butter stick 
• ½ cup heavy cream

Instructions 

White and green cake mix. In a bowl, add the white cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil, and water. Mix until fully combined. Grease two pans with butter and sprinkle each pan with cake mix. Add half the white cake mix to one of the pans. In a bowl, add half the white cake mix, then add green food coloring. Mix until fully combined. Add the green cake mix to the pan. Bake both the white and green cakes at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Once the cakes are baked, remove the cakes from the oven and let the cakes cool.

Red velvet cake mix. In a bowl, add the red velvet cake mix then add the egg, vegetable oil, and water. Mix until fully combined. Grease one pan with butter and sprinkle with cake mix. Add the red velvet cake mix to the pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Once the cake is baked, remove from the oven and let the cake cool. 

Cream Cheese Frosting. In a bowl, add the powdered sugar, butter, cream cheese, and heavy cream. Mix the ingredients until creamy.

Trim the cake and cake crumbs. Trim off the domes of the white, red, and green cake with a knife. Save the dome scraps of each cake. In a food processor, add the white dome scraps and process into crumbs. Set the white crumbs aside. Repeat the process for the red velvet and green cake dome scraps.

Assemble the cake and cream cheese frosting. On a dish or cake stand, add the white cake. Apply the cream cheese frosting evenly to the top. Add the red velvet cake over the frosted white cake and apply the cream cheese frosting evenly to the top. Then add the green cake over the frosted red velvet cake and apply cream cheese frosting evenly to the top. Coat the entire cake with the cream cheese frosting.

Cake crumbs. Add and sprinkle the white cake crumbs to the cake. Add and sprinkle the red cake crumbs to the cake and finally add and sprinkle the green cake crumbs to the cake.