Halloween cake

Beginner - Half a day - Complete

Keywords :

Halloween - Let's surprise our guests - Sweet creative cooking - Red Fruits - Cakes and pastries - Fête d'Halloween

Let's give our Halloween party guests a fright with these bloody eyeball cakes. Made mostly of cake and whipped cream, there is a gruesome surprise awaiting in this delicious dessert : the eyes bleed when they are cut... BRRR !

Supplies

Tools

Oven
Electric whisk
2 round cake tins
Paintbrush

Materials

To make the cake :

2 small pots of natural yogurt (once empty, one of the pots can be used as a mesure for the other ingredients - make sure you measure the oil last)
4 pots of powdered sugar
6 pots of self-raising flower or 6 pots of plain flour and 2 packets of raising agent/ bicarbonate of soda
2 packets of vanilla sugar
1½ pots of vegetable oil (not olive oil)
6 eggs
Orange or red colouring (optional)

To decorate the cake :

1 Litre (34 fl oz) of very cold double cream/whipping cream
1 packet frosting mix
8 table spoons of powdered sugar (icing)
3/4 pot of strawberry jam, cherry or any other red fruit (use as thick a jam possible)
Red writing icing
Green food colouring
Green marzipan

Directions

How to make the cake

Mix together all the cake ingredients.
Once fully smooth, colour the mixture orange.
Grease and flour 2 round cake tins.
Cover the base of the molds with baking paper.
Pour the cake mixture into the two cake tins.
Bake at 180°C (356 °F) for 30 minutes.
Allow the cake to completely cool down before removing the cake tins.

Trim the edges to round it off.

Cut the cake in two along the sides. Make sure that you keep the cake the right way up, as the rounded part makes for a great eye shape.

Cake decoration

Whip the very cold cream into chantilly whipped cream.
Add the frosting sugar and the 8 table spoons of sugar once the cream starts to take shape. The cream should form stiff peaks, but be careful that you don't over-whip it!
Keep back 1/3 of the cream and put the rest into the fridge.
Whip the chantilly cream until it is very thick, add the jam and continue to whip.
Decorate the base of each half of the cake with the the red fruity chantilly.

Put the two halves back together with the domed part on top.

Now, generously cover the entire cake in chantilly cream.

Roll out the marzipan with a rolling pin and cut out 4 circles, 2 large and 2 smaller ones for the pupils.
Put the two large circles in the center of each of the two cakes.

Paint the smaller circles dark green (pupils) using the colouring and a paint brush.
Place the smaller circles in the middle of the larger circles already positioned on the cakes.
Draw in veins oozing with blood on the eyes with the writing icing.

Tips

If the whisk is not strong effective enough when making the chantilly cream, try dividing the cream into smaller quantities so that you repeat the process several times.