Snowman cake (3D)

Directions

1. 1
   Combine flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl.
2. 2
   Beat butter and sugar.
3. 3
   Slowly add in eggs and vanilla.
4. 4
   Once smooth, add in milk and beat until smooth.
5. 5
   Lightly coat cinnamon chips in flour and add to the cake mix and stir in.
6. 6
   The cakes should fill 3 9 inch round baking pans, but it doesn't really matter what shape you bake them in so feel free to use whatever you have.
7. 7
   Make sure all pans are generously greased before putting batter in.
8. 8
   Bake each cake at 350F for about 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
9. 9
   Let cakes cool completely (a few hours).
10. 10
    Once cooled, cut off edges of cake so you only have the softest parts.
11. 11
    Cut these into small pieces and make cake into a crumble in a large bowl.
12. 12
    Add about 1/3-1/2 of a can of frosting to 1 cake's worth of crumbles and mix until you are able to mold it.
13. 13
    Mold the cakes into 3 different size balls (optional: plus a hat) and refrigerate the balls for at least 4 hours.
14. 14
    Once hardened, ice the balls with more vanilla frosting and stack 3 largest to smallest onto the center of a wooden stick.
15. 15
    Make sure the stick doesn't show.
16. 16
    Dip pretzels and hats in melted chocolate and let cool.
17. 17
    Assemble them onto snowman as a hat and arms.
18. 18
    Add more cinnamon chips as eyes and buttons.
19. 19
    Add the colored frosting as a scarf.