Passover Viennese Crunch Marble Cake
April 20, 2008
We have a lot of April birthdays in our family, so dessert after tonight’s seder was a good time to do a “Happy Birthday, all the April birthdays!” cake. I decided to doctor up some kosher for Passover cake mixes rather than making a cake from scratch — you can do so out of cake meal (finely ground matzah) and potato starch, but since I wasn’t planning on using those ingredients the rest of the holiday, I thought a mix would be easier.
First I prepared a Manischewitz Extra Moist Yellow Cake Mix and spread it into a greased 8×8 disposable pan. Then I mixed up batter for an Extra Moist Chocolate Cake, which I spread on top of the first layer. Using I knife, I swirled the two mixes together to marble them. (These mixes are smaller than a typical non-Passover cake mix, so two boxes just filled the pan I used.)
Once the cake was baked and cooled, I prepared the chocolate frosting from one of the mixes, and spread it thinly over the cake. Then I topped the cake with Viennese Crunch candies (a praline/chocolate combination) I had crushed by sealing them inside a Ziploc and whacking them with a the bottom of a heavy glass jar.
All the Passover desserts this year were surprisingly good — Lauren made excellent brownies, my mom made chocolate chip cookies the boys loved, and the birthday cake was well-received, too.
After the enormous meals of the past two nights’ seders, I am looking forward to a simple salad.
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Jodi | April 21, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Kosher for Passover cake looks good to me!:O)
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Piece a Cake Bakery | June 23, 2008 at 11:11 pm
This looks great tasting. I understand your need to eat salad! Thanks for the recipe, will try.
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