Mexican Dessert Recipes
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Mexican Birthday Cake with Chocolate and Cinnamon
Birthday cakes can be easy to make or complicated, depending which birthday cake recipe you use. For the following Mexican inspired cake, a devil's food cake mix forms the basis of the recipe, and then cinnamon and chocolate chips are added for a homemade flavor. The frosting is homemade and the combination of marshmallow fluff, cocoa, butter and more give it a delicious flavor and great texture.
The maraschino cherries and sparklers are a great decoration but of course, you can decorate the cake any way you like. Perhaps you have some other birthday cake ideas that you are keen to try out. The easiest way to write "feliz cumpleanos" (Spanish for happy birthday) on the cake is with colored piping gel, unless you are experienced with writing using a piping bag. That is something that takes practice.
Whether you are looking for ideas for adults' birthday cakes or kids' birthday cakes, the following recipe gives a rich, moist and full-flavored cake, which everybody will enjoy. The cake is easy to make and the decoration looks elaborate but is actually very simple. There are thousands of different birthday cake designs to choose from but if you want an easy recipe for a great birthday cake, this one is ideal.
Feliz Cumpleanos Cake
Ingredients -
1 box devil's food cake mix, 18 ¼ oz
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ cup powdered sugar
1 stick butter, at room temperature
5 maraschino cherries
3 ½ oz marshmallow fluff
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tube white piping gel
Nonstick cooking spray
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Coat a pair of 8 x 2 inch round cake pans with the cooking spray, then use wax paper to line the bottoms and spray more cooking spray over that.
Follow the instructions on the package to make up the cake mix.
Add the chocolate chips and cinnamon to it.
Divide the batter between the prepared cake pans and bake the cake, following the directions on the package.
Let the cake layers cool in the pans for 15 minutes, then on a wire rack.
Beat the butter until it is creamy, and then add the cocoa and marshmallow fluff.
Beat in the powdered sugar until the frosting is fluffy. Spread ⅔ of the frosting over a cake layer, and then top it with the second layer.
Pipe the remaining chocolate frosting around the outer edge of the cake, using a piping bag with a rosette tip.
Write "happy birthday" (or "feliz cumpleanos") in white piping gel on the cake.
Decorate it with the maraschino cherries and some sparkers.
(Serves 8)
Photo Description:
This rich flavored and great-looking Mexican birthday cake is sure to be appreciated. Chocolate is a popular flavor in Mexican dessert recipes and this birthday cake is tasty, moist and really appealing. The cherries and sparklers make a great decoration and this cake is suitable for anyone's birthday, as long as they like chocolate and most people do. The cake might be based on a cake mix but there are other flavors added to it. Also, the chocolate marshmallow fluff frosting is homemade and this adds a really good flavor to this Mexican birthday cake recipe.
