need halloween cake ideas...
how about this great tombstone cake?
you'll scare up lots of compliments with Halloween Cake Ideas like this one.
Ghostly apparitions floating over a graveyard, under a full moon. Oooh....spooky!
If you're planning a party for Halloween, you can't go wrong with this easy Halloween cake idea.
While this cake looks impressive, it's not difficult make. You only need to know a couple of simple techniques, which I'll walk you through, and in no time you'll have a perfect party centerpiece.
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what you'll need:
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- one filled 8" round cake - this one's Classic Moist Chocolate Cake with Whipped Chocolate Ganache filling
- buttercream frosting
- Leaf Green powdered food color or gel paste food color
- chocolate cookie crumbs, any kind are fine
- Lemon Yellow powdered food color or candy color
- Black Powdered Food Color or candy color
- white candy melts
- cocoa candy melts
- decorating bag fitted with #234 large grass tip
- black candy writer
- candy corn, to line the graveyard path
- black string licorice, cut into 1 1/2" lengths, for the spider legs
- black licorice all-sorts candy, or similar, for the spider bodies
here's how to do it...
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1. Bake your cake using your favorite recipe. Tort and fill the cake, stacking to three layers high. Crumb coat and refrigerate overnight.
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2. Press the chocolate cookie crumbs all the way around the sides of the cake, making sure to cover the crumb coat thickly so there's no gaps.
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3. Use a toothpick to mark out a path for the graveyard and press cookie crumbs into the top of the cake to fill in the path.
4. Tint some buttercream dark green with the leaf green food color. You'll need about 2 cups of buttercream for the grass.
Fill a decorating bag about 2/3 full with the buttercream and fit a #234 tip. Start filling in the grass around the perimeter of the cake and work your way in, edging the path as you go.
Continue until the everything but the path has been covered in grass.
5. Use the chocolate piping technique to make several white tombstone shapes, about 2 1/2" high. Finish with "RIP" piped in melted dark chocolate, tinted black.
6. Use the chocolate piping technique to make six or seven white ghost shapes.
You'll only need four to complete the cake, but it's always good to have extras in case any break.
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7. Use the chocolate piping technique to make two or three black tree silhouettes.
8. Use the chocolate piping technique to make several yellow full moons.
9. Time to assemble...
Place one tombestone a the end of the path. Place a tree behind it and a full moon behind the tree. Secure the pieces by pushing them very gently into the cake.
Place two more tombstones on either side of the path and add a ghost behind each one.
Line the path on both sides with candy corn, inserted with the pointed end down.
10. Finish with two giant spiders made using black licorice candies for the body and 1 1/2" pieces of string licorice for the legs, gently pushing the pieces into the buttercream to secure.
You're done! Now go take some birthday cake pictures of your own and show them off here.
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