Nutrition Facts

  • One serving:
  • (1 piece)
  • Calories:
  • 604
  • Fat:
  • 18 g
  • Saturated Fat:
  • 9 g
  • Cholesterol:
  • 108 mg
  • Sodium:
  • 315 mg
  • Carbohydrate:
  • 103 g
  • Fiber:
  • 2 g
  • Protein:
  • 7 g


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Maple Tree Cake

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Here's a colorful confection folks will fall for! To top off the scrumptious maple-flavored cake from Lorraine Tishmack of Casselton, North Dakota, our kitchen staff created a chocolate tree with pretty dried-fruit leaves.

SERVINGS: 12

CATEGORY: Dessert

METHOD: Baked

TIME: Prep: 25 min. Bake: 30 min. + cooling

Ingredients:

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups (16 ounces) sour cream
  • 2 teaspoons maple flavoring
  • 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • Dash salt
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • FROSTING:
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 3 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1/4 cup peanut butter chips
  • 2 tablespoons dried cranberries
  • 2 tablespoons golden raisins
  • 2 tablespoons chopped dried apricots
  • 2 tablespoons chopped dried apples

Directions:

In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs and sugar. Add sour cream and maple flavoring. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to sour cream mixture and mix well. Fold in pecans.
    Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
    For frosting, in a mixing bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar. Add syrup; mix well. Spread between layers and over top and sides of cake.
    In a microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate and peanut butter chips; stir until smooth. Transfer to a pastry or a heavy-duty resealable
   plastic bag; cut a small hole in the corner of bag. Pipe a tree and branches on top of the cake. Combine dried fruit; sprinkle around tree base and at ends of branches to resemble leaves. Yield: 12 servings.


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