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Spooky, Scary (and Gross) Halloween Cakes
There is never more scope for creativity than when you bake and decorate Halloween cakes. Whether you opt for cute and sweet little witches, evil monsters from the dark side, spider webs or something gross like the wonderful kitty litter cake, you'll never run out of great ideas.
When I was a kid, and this was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, the highlight of our school Halloween party was eating the specially decorated sugar cookies that one mom brought every year. They were decorated with color icing and trimmed with simply drawn little pumpkins or ghostlike figures. By today's standards, they were pretty tame -- but at the time, these cookies were the thing we looked forward to all year.
Thank you, Mrs. Phillips, for giving me this wonderful childhood memory.
Now let's get started making some wonderful Halloween cakes so your children will have a memory like mine to write about some day.
(Halloween is October 31, 2010)
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Making your Halloween Cakes from Scratch
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If you're planning chocolate Halloween cakes, check out the cake section of Best Chocolate Recipes. You'll find plenty of good chocolate cake recipes there.
Or, how about a pumpkin cake recipe? Halloween cakes scream out for pumpkin, don't you think?
Pumpkin Cake
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
4 eggs
2 cups pumpkin
Combine all of these ingredients in the order given. Beat well. Spread the batter in a greased 12 inch by 15 inch baking pan. Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
With pumpkin as the basis, your Halloween cake will be authentic.
Tip: If you want to make your Halloween cakes more "orange" or if you want orange icing, add drops of red and yellow food color to the mix. Red and yellow added together make orange.
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1. To make black cakes or cookies, just stir a little
Black Food Paste into the batter.
2. Want thumbs? Use pink grapefruit sections, or add a little red food color to yellow grapefruit sections.
3. Does your cake need bloody eyeballs? Blanche some cherry tomatoes in boiling water for a minute. Remove, drain, take the skins off and there you are. Perfectly disgusting bloody eyeballs.
4. Want your cake to foam like a witch's brew? Bake your cake in a tube pan. Remove from pan and insert a narrow glass or bud vaise in the hole. Add some vinegar. When its time to foam, put a little baking soda in the vinegar and watch the action take place. (You might want to protect some areas of your cake with plastic wrap.)
4. Add a bit of black food paste to whipped cream used in decorating. Voila! Instant, richly dark whipped cream.
Make Pumpkin Shaped Halloween Cakes
the secret is using two bundt pans
After baking your two bundt cakes, allow them to cool fully before proceeding
Open the frosting. Remove a half cup, which you color black using black food paste. Color the remaining frosting orange. If you don't have orange food color, you can mix red and yellow food color in, a drop at a time until you get the color you want.
Find a cake plate. Place your first bundt cake upside down on this plate. That is the rounded side will be down and the flat side is facing up.
Spread frosting on the top. Do not frost sides at this time.
Place your second bundt cake with the flat side down on top of the iced part of the first cake.
Spread orange frosting on the entire cake, making up and down swooshing movements to resemble the dents on a pumpkin.
Put the Ho Ho in the middle of the top cake, forming a pumpkin stem.
The black frosting makes your eyes, nose and mouth. You could also use black rope licorice for this if you prefer.
There you have fast and easy pumpkin-shaped Halloween cakes.
Graveyard Halloween Cakes
Make a sheet cake -- then decorate
Next, you bake some cookies in a tombstone shape. You can get a Tombstone Cookie Cutter
for this purpose.When the cookies are baked, make a thin glaze of icing sugar and milk. Dip your cookies into this glaze. Using a toothpick or some other pointy object, carve RIP on the top.
Place your tombstone cookies so they are standing upright in the chocolate frosting. You can add additional decorations such as cookie or candy ghosts, black cats and pumpkins.
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- momto4 momto4 Oct 17, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
- Great lens! Your pumpkin cake sounds delicious! I'll have to try it.
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- pepys pepys Sep 25, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
- There I was, with my sweet tooth talking to me, and up came your lens. I have to say you have such a lot of information that I have booked marked you - so i can come back as the urge arises. (I also enjoy the baking)
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- JoeyFrat JoeyFrat Dec 22, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
- Definitely some good ideas on this lens. Maybe someday I will actually start baking cookies. Or I'll just let the wife do it, who knows. Thanks for the info.
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- go206th go206th Nov 5, 2008 @ 8:15 pm
- Great Lens. I absolutely love the eyeball and witches brew ideas. Thank you for adding to my Homemade Halloween group. 5*
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- grannyann grannyann Nov 6, 2007 @ 10:04 am
- This is a great Lens. We linked to our Halloween recipes on Zoinkies. You can find your link here: http://www.zoinkies.com/halloween/halloweenrecipes.htm
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