How to Prepare Yummy Brain Cake

Brain Cake. Brain Cake A cake to blow your mind! This cake could be the most delicious science project ever. The inside of the brain is a deep red velvet cake, iced lightly with Italian Meringue buttercream, and topped with brain tissue fondant patterns. -Frost the cake with a very thin layer of cream cheese frosting.

Why should humans have all the fun? Zombies deserve a premiere celebration too! I whipped them up a blood-red velvet cake in the best Halloween treats fashion with ropes of brainy fondant and oozing with seedless raspberry jam. You can cook Brain Cake using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Brain Cake

1. You need 250 g of cooking margarine.
2. Prepare 265 g of caster sugar.
3. You need 240 g of self-raising flour.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of cocoa.
5. It's Pinch of salt.
6. It's 50 ml of buttermilk.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla bean paste.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of Sugarflair extra red food colouring (but any gel colouring should work).
9. Prepare 4 of eggs.
10. It's 2 tsp of white wine vinegar.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
12. Prepare of For the Cream Cheese Frosting:.
13. Prepare 80 g of butter.
14. Prepare 120 g of cream cheese.
15. It's 500 g of icing sugar, sifted.
16. It's 1 tsp of vanilla bean paste.
17. You need of Flesh coloured fondant.
18. It's of Edible blood.

Brain Cake: The process is quite simple. This is a double cake, filled, and I´ve used foundant icing to create the shape of a real brain. I first baked a red velvet cake in a hemisphere baking pan (It will be round but its ok because you will be carving out some of the cake to form an oval shape). You can use any of your favourite cake recipe but "red cakes" fit in more to the theme.

Brain Cake instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Beat the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy..
2. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and salt into a bowl. Mix the food colouring and vanilla into the buttermilk and mix well to combine..
3. Add 2 eggs to the sugar/margarine mix, with. few tbsp of your dry ingredients beat until well combined, keep mixing and add the last two eggs, keep mixing until fully incorporated..
4. Add half the dry ingredients and mix together on low until combined. Then add all your buttermilk mixture and the remaining dry ingredients, mix until almost fully combined but finish fully mixing by hand. The mix together the bicarb and vinegar and add to the cake mix and mix thoroughly..
5. Pour into a prepared 8-inch half-sphere cake pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean..
6. Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes in the cake pan then turn out and allow to cool completely..
7. For the Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat the butter and cream cheese together until light and fluffy. Add half the icing sugar and the vanilla and beat on the lowest speed until combines. Add the rest of the icing sugar and continue to beat until fully combined..
8. To Decorate: Level off the bottom of the half sphere sponge, then cut the sponge in half lengthways. fill with the frosting and cover with a thin layer of frosting, then cut off a small piece each side to create more a brain shape and frost again. Cut a line down the middle of the sponge to represent the two sides of the brain..
   
9. Make two lobes out of the fondant, add them together to the serving board then add the cake on top, to that the cake is slightly raised on one side..
   
10. Roll out sausages of the fondant and use those to create the brain all over the sponge. then spoon over lots of edible blood!.
    
    
    

Halloween Brain Cake: "Braaaains!" - does this quote sound familiar? If so, maybe you know the movie that inspired this Halloween cake. We don't really celebrate Halloween at home but we won't miss an opportunity to put costumes on, make an original cake and have some … The base of the cake is a red velvet cake made from a box mix, and the brain effect is created with marshmallow fondant. You can find fondant at specialty cooking stores and sometimes in your regular grocery store, but you can also make your own. If ever you're in the mood, or in the company of neuroscientists with something to celebrate, you may need to create an anatomically correct brain cake.