Sunday, November 3, 2013

Ghoulish Graveyard Halloween Cake

With Halloween and All Souls' Day this week I made this Ghoulish Graveyard Halloween Cake. It was fun to make and would be great to bake and decorate with kids. It would also be perfect for a Halloween party.
The recipe for this cake is from BBC GoodFood and you can find it here. It is easy to make as it's just a basic chocolate sponge cake recipe made in a 20 x 30cm tin. The resultant sponge was light and tasty. Once cool, the whole cake is covered in chocolate buttercream. I put my cake on a rectangular cake board and then covered the board in buttercream too and put a black ribbon around the edge. Alternatively if you have an appropriately sized slate or granite board this would look good too, or you could cover your cake board in black sugarpaste.
The gravestone biscuit recipe is also included on the BBC website. They are made with soft light brown sugar and lots of golden syrup. You can cut your shapes out freehand or you can also cut them out in cardboard first and use this as a template. I used a cereal box to make my templates. To add the details I used royal icing piped with a size 2 nozzle.

To construct the cake you just need some Matchmakers, Oreo cookies and some Halloween jelly sweets. The jelly sweets are usually available in supermarkets and Haribo make good ones around Halloween time. The Matchmakers should be snapped at various lengths and then pushed into the buttercream around the edge of the cake. To make the soil on top whizz the Oreos in a food processor (or you can bash them with a rolling pin in a plastic bag), when it's a fairly fine crumb, sprinkle them on top.

Finally, push the gravestones gently into the cake and add the jelly sweets for a bit of colour and to complete the ghoulish graveyard look.

22 comments:

  1. Thats a cracking cake for Halloween...lovely idea and it looks so effective. :-)

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  2. This cake looks like so much fun, I love it!

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  3. What a beautiful cake - love the matchmaker fence

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  4. What doe the gingerbread taste like?

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  5. That's a great Halloween cake Laura, it looks so fun and very fitting for the holiday.

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  6. Fab Halloween cake! I made a graveyard cake this year too but it's got nothing on this. I used chocolate fingers for the fence but I think the matchsticks you've used look better due to their knobbly texture!

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  7. That looks brilliant, well done, one to remember for next year!

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  8. This looks brilliant! Really good bake for the Halloween season! xxx

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  9. Ghoulish Graveyard Halloween Cake!! Looks so fabulous and I bet that it was tasty too. I absolutely adore this idea, how enchanting, I would have never thought of such a thing. Thanks for inspiring and I will save it for the next Halloween day. This year we had the pumpkin shaped cake and our party at one of the local Los Angeles venues had turned out to be super enjoyable.

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