Recipe: Tasty Halloween Skull Chocolate Cake

Halloween Skull Chocolate Cake. This Chocolate Skull Cake just might be the perfect halloween dessert recipe. Last week I was so thrilled to share my haunted Halloween table with you. You may have noticed the centerpiece: a very eerie but totally delicious Chocolate Skull Cake.

So imagine, there's this beautiful skull covered in a thin coating of white chocolate ganache, and then just before you serve the cake, you pour warm creamy red velvet creme anglaise (bloody custard sauce) on top to melt the chocolate skull cap, revealing the strawberry jello brain piece. Chocolate Lava Skull Cakes - seriously delicious and PERFECT for your Halloween parties! A few of his friends came over and decorated both chocolate and vanilla skull cakes. You can have Halloween Skull Chocolate Cake using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Halloween Skull Chocolate Cake

1. It's 100 g of dark chocolate bar.
2. It's 250 ml of water (just over a cup).
3. You need 3 of eggs.
4. It's 250 g of brown sugar.
5. You need 125 g of butter or margarine.
6. You need 150 g of pastry flour or cake flour.
7. You need 25 g of bitter cocoa powder.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder (I use ROYAL).
9. Prepare of For decoration:.
10. It's of Powdered sugar.

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Halloween Skull Chocolate Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 160°C/320°F..
2. Break up the chocolate and heat in a sauce pan with the water over low heat so it melts slowly (important!). Watch the chocolate so it doesn’t burn, stir constantly and don’t let the water boil. When you see it’s almost melted, remove from heat and let the remaining heat in pan finish the melting. Now you have the chocolate soup. Set aside for now..
3. In a bowl or mixer, add the butter (should be soft) with the sugar and mix well. Then mix in one egg at a time..
4. When you have added the last egg into the mixture, it should be crumbly..
5. Finally mix the flour with the baking powder and cocoa powder and sift to get rid of the lumps. Add it to the butter and egg mixture and mix. Lastly pour in the chocolate “soup” from earlier and stir in a circular motion until all ingredients are well incorporated..
6. Line a cake mold with baking paper and pour the batter in..
7. Bake for about 50 minutes. The exact time depends on your oven so start checking after 40 minutes. You’ll know when it’s almost ready because your house will begin to smell like chocolate :).
8. To check if it’s ready, poke with a knife - if it comes out dry it’s good to go..
9. Let the cake cool completely. This is very important because the sugar will melt if it is not completely cool..
10. Remove the cake from the mold and place on a plate with a paper lace doily..
11. Cut a skull pattern out of paper (or other halloween shape) and place on the cake. Using a fine sieve or colander, sprinkle with the powdered sugar..

Cake Balls "I made them for a Halloween party. This cake was specifically measured out in order to fill the Nordicware skull pan, available on Amazon.com. Prep your skull cake pan by first thoroughly buttering and flouring it, paying special attention to the areas around the eye sockets, nasal cavity and teeth. The Breakable Chocolate Skull, however, is available at Williams Sonoma. It comes with a mallet, and the package includes chilled gel packs.