Football after a huge Thanksgiving meal is a given in our house so here’s to that old tradition: a football-shaped chocolate cake with mud filling (marsmallow cream, crushed chocolate cookies, caramel and butter).
Ingredients
- 1 box (19.5 ounces) chocolate cake mix
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup marshmallow cream
- 10 chocolate sandwich with vanilla filling cookies (such as Oreos®)
- 2 tablespoons caramel sauce
- 1 can (16 ounces) milk chocolate frosting
- ½ cup white canned frosting
Steps:
- Melt chocolate and let cool (or you’ll fry the eggs).
- Make 9-inch round cake according to box directions, adding the melted chocolate with the eggs, and allow it to cool completely.
- Filling: In a bowl beat butter, marshmallow cream, and caramel sauce, scraping down side of bowl as needed, until combined. Add cookies and mix to combine.
- Cut and remove ½-inch-by-9-inch rectangle from the middle of the cake and fill.
- Glaze: Microwave frosting 30 seconds on high and stir it until smooth.
- Leaving the cake on the cooling rack, place the rack on a jelly roll pan. Reserve ½ cup frosting. Pour the remaning melted frosting over the cake to cover. Pour reserved frosting over removed rectangle. Let frosting glaze set completely.
- Pipe on the laces using white icing in a resealable bag with a corner clipped about 5/8 inch.
