Creepy Crawly Cake Food

CREEPY-CRAWLY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Make the cake: Coat two 9-inch cake pans with cooking spray. Line bottoms with parchment, and coat with spray. Dust with all-purpose flour, tapping out excess. Whisk together flours, baking soda, and 3/4 teaspoon salt.
• Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Beat in melted chocolate. Divide batter between pans, and smooth tops using an offset spatula.
• Bake cakes until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool in pans set on wire racks for 30 minutes. Turn out cakes onto racks, remove parchment, and let cool completely.
• Make the ganache: Bring cream to a gentle simmer in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Pour over chopped chocolates and butter in a bowl. Let stand for 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth and shiny. Let stand until thickened, about 40 minutes. Transfer 1 3/4 cups ganache to a bowl, and fold in malt balls; reserve remaining ganache.
• Transfer 1 cake to a serving platter (top side up). Spread ganache-malt ball filling on top, and top with remaining cake (top side up). Refrigerate until set, about 15 minutes. Cut a large wedge from cake to serve on another plate. Pour remaining ganache (reheat if necessary) over cake and wedge, and let drip down sides and into cut center of cake. Garnish cake and platter with rubber cockroaches.

CREEPY CRAWLY CAKE TRUFFLES

Steps:

• Prepare cake mix as directed on package, adding orange extract and food colours. Bake as directed on package for 13x9-inch (33 x 23 cm) baking pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
• Crumble cake into large bowl. Add marshmallow fluff; mix until well blended. Shape into 1-inch (2.5 cm) balls. Refrigerate 2 hours.
• Melt coating wafers or chocolate as directed on package. Using a fork, dip 1 cake ball at a time into the confectionary coating or melted chocolate. Tap back of fork 2 or 3 times against edge of dish to allow excess to drip off. Place cake balls on wax paper-lined tray.
• Decorate as desired.

CREEPY CRAWLY CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Prepare and bake cake batter according to package directions for cupcakes. Cool completely., Set aside 1 tablespoon frosting. Frost cupcakes with remaining frosting; dip each into crushed cookies. Place a dab of the reserved frosting on the cut end of each worm half; place two on each cupcake.

DARK CREEPY GORY CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour 2 9 inch pans.
• Make your choice of devil`s food cake as directed.
• Pour evenly into pans.
• Mix Ghostly Cheese Filling ingredients together and pour over cake mix. Be sure to not mix in it will sink as it bakes.
• Bake for 1 hour.
• Creepy Dark Frosting:.
• Meanwhile in a food processor with metal blade sift sugar, cocoa, salt & Cayenne by pulsing ingredients.
• Add remaining Creepy Dark Frosting ingredients and pulse till smooth.
• Cool cake for 5 minutes in pans then carefully invert to rack or dish pour optional rum evenly over both layers of cake then set aside to cool 10 minutes.
• Key to assembling is to have to cake somewhat warm so the frosting creeps --
• Place one layer on cake dish.
• Pipe a ring of frosting around edge on cake and place raspberry filling inside.
• Place second layer of cake on top.
• Spread frosting on sides and top of cake.
• Key:
• If cake is warm it will ooze, chill as soon as you are done frosting. Touch up the frosting if you need too and decorate as Creepy as you want!