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Christmas-Tree-Shaped Cake

Ingredients:
Cake-Shaping Strip (from 11 sushi-mat segments)
Heavy-duty aluminum foil
Sheet pan
Prepared cake batter (see the Raspberry Almond Cake batter or prepare batter using about 2 boxes of cake mix)
3 (16-ounce) containers white frosting
1/2 (16-ounce) container of chocolate frosting
150 pretzel sticks
30 cranberries
1 cup of powdered sugar
Green food dye

Instructions:
1. Line a sheet pan with two sheets of aluminum foil. Shape the Cake-Shaping Strip into a shape of a tree. Exaggerate the spatial features, as they'll seem smaller after you unwrap and ice the cake. Wrap the bottom foil layers around the strip. Cut the foil or add extra bottom foil strips as needed to wrap around the strip. Press small balls of loosely packed foil into outer corners or edges if you think that the foil didn't wrap around the portion well enough to prevent cake-batter leakage.

2. Prepare your cake batter. Spray the strip and foil with cooking spray. Pour the cake batter into the prepared "pan" and bake until done. Let the cake cool.

3. Cut away any cake batter that leaked through the strip. Carefully remove the Cake-Shaping Strip. Insert the flat edge of a table knife between the strip and the cake if this helps.

4. Add green food dye to the white frosting. Spread part of the green frosting along the sides of the tree cake.

5. Break apart most of the pretzel sticks. Stick them into the cake, such that the unbroken side is oriented upwards.

6. Gradually add some powdered sugar to the green frosting until it is somewhat stiff. Spoon the frosting into a piping bag. Pipe on the rest of the green icing over the pretzel sticks using a No. 352 Leaf Decorating Tip.

7. Frost the trunk portion of the cake with chocolate frosting. Cover the top of the trunk with vertically aligned whole pretzel sticks. Spread some more chocolate frosting over the pretzels, such that they are mostly, but not entirely, covered.

8. Place cranberries on the tree cake to look like ornaments. Dust the cake with powdered sugar to look like snow.

Christmas Tree Cake

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