Ingredients
Enjoy our delicious Caramel Popcorn Cake!
Cake:
- 2 cups Werther's Original Caramel Popcorn
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, at room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
Caramel:
- 24 Werther's Soft Crème Caramels, unwrapped
- 2 tablespoons 35% whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
Frosting:
- 2 packages brick-style cream cheese, cold
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 ½ cups icing sugar, sifted
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
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Cake: Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter and flour three 6-inch (15 cm) round cake pans; set aside. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
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Using electric mixer, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, incorporating each one fully before adding the next one. Beat in vanilla.
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With mixer on low, alternately add flour mixture in 3 parts with milk in 2 parts, starting and ending with flour mixture, scraping down bowl as needed between additions.
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Scrape into prepared pans; smooth tops. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until lightly golden and tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Let cool completely.
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Frosting: Meanwhile, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy. Beat in butter; beat in icing sugar and salt just until smooth (if frosting is too soft to spread, refrigerate for 10 to 15 minutes to firm up).
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Carefully remove cakes from pans. Using serrated knife, trim tops to make flat cakes. Place one cake layer on serving plate; spread with generous ⅓ cup frosting. Repeat with remaining cake layers. Spread remaining frosting over side of cake. Refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours or until frosting is well chilled and set.
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Caramel: In small saucepan set over medium-low heat, combine caramels, cream and butter. Cook, whisking, for 3 to 5 minutes or until well combined and smooth.
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Drizzle caramel over top of cake, allowing some to drip over the side. Pile Werther's Original Caramel Popcorn on top of cake, pressing lightly to adhere to caramel.
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Add ⅓ cup of peanuts to caramel popcorn if desired.
Makes: 8 servings
Prep Time: 35 minutes
