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This showstopping green Grinch cake is decorated with a perfectly Grinchy face, and conceals a wonderful secret–a red heart on the inside! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grinch Cake With A Heart Inside<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been excited to share this cake with you for over a year now! I actually made this cake last year but, as so often happens, I ran out of time and didn’t have a chance to post it before Christmas<\/a>. Somehow a Grinch cake didn’t seem appropriate for Valentine’s Day<\/a>, so it sat in the vault for a year until it was Grinch season once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’m coming at you now, with a whole year’s worth of pent-up enthusiasm and Grinchy musings at the ready. Let’s do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The character of the Grinch is full of contradictions. He starts off as almost pure evil, stealing an entire town’s Christmas supplies, from their stockings and gifts to their fireplace logs. But by the end of the book, he’s had a change of heart–literally! He realizes the true meaning of Christmas and his small, shriveled heart grows three sizes. It’s a sweet story, well deserving of being immortalized in sweet cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Grinch Cake, then, represents that duality of character. The outside is a simple line drawing of his face, set in its trademark scheming grin…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but the inside contains a big, bright red heart, to represent the Grinch’s big heart at the end!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isn’t that stunning?! The combination of the bright green cake and the bold red heart gets me every time. Seeing this cake makes MY heart grow three sizes, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a few ways to hide a heart inside of a cake. One way is to cut hearts out of baked red cake, line the heart pieces up inside a cake pan, pour cake batter over them, and bake everything together–similar to the way I baked a star inside this American flag cake<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That method works well, but for this cake I wanted to try something different. This Grinch cake gave me the perfect opportunity to attempt hiding a heart inside a cake, and I have to say, I love the way it turned out! I’ll be sharing my recipe and tips down below so you can recreate this cake for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you’ll see from the recipe and video, this method is definitely more work than your standard layer cake. Of course! You don’t just get amazing hidden hearts while slapping together some cake and frosting all casual-like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though it requires a bit of precision (and maybe a sprinkling of magic Who-ville fairy dust), I would say it’s more than worth the time it takes to put together. Ultimately, the work is not that hard compared to the stunning, vibrant visual payout you get. I have a few notes and suggestions to help you below, and then a video showing how it’s done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grinch Cake Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n