Haunted Mansion Bloody Wedding Cake Food

HAUNTED MANSION BLOODY WEDDING CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350F. Combine white cake mix, 1 cup water, 3 egg whites and vegetable oil in a large bowl. Whisk together until smooth. Pour into a 8 inch prepared cake pan. Bake for 25-30 minute or until done. Remove from oven and let cool. Leave as one layer or cut into 3 layers. Add butter and shortening to bowl of mixer. Beat together until smooth. Mix in vanilla and powdered sugar until combined and smooth. Add 1/4 cup water and whip on high for 3-5 minutes until fluffy. Add more water 1 tablespoon at a time if needed. Frost cooled cake with a thin layer of white frosting. Fill a piping bag that's been fitted with a large star tip with the rest of the frosting. Pipe swirls all over the cake. For the blood splatter, you can either splatter the entire cake or splatter each slice once it is cut. Use clean hands or a new toothbrush to dip into red food coloring and flick onto the cake.

HAUNTED-HOUSE CAKE

Steps:

• To assemble the cake: Secure one 11-inch cake layer to corresponding-size round foam board with a dab of chocolate buttercream. Spread 2 cups buttercream on top. Stack another 11-inch cake on top of buttercream, and frost as before. Top with remaining 11-inch cake. Spread 1 cup buttercream over top and sides of tier, scraping lightly to create a thin layer, or crumb coat, and refrigerate until frosting is firm, about 30 minutes. Spread 2 cups buttercream over entire tier until smooth.
• Repeat with 9-inch cake layers on second foam board, using 1 cup frosting between layers, 1/2 cup for crumb coat, and 1 cup for the final coat.
• Trim 5 dowels to height of 9-inch tier and 6 to height of 11-inch tier. Insert dowels in corresponding tiers in a circle, 2 1/2 inches from the edge of cake. Center 9-inch tier over 11-inch tier, pressing gently to secure. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip (#806) with remaining buttercream. Pipe pearls around bottoms of tiers for a border, as shown below. (Cake can be refrigerated up to 3 days before proceeding.)
• Make the steps: Fill a small bowl with cocoa powder. Cut torrone into 2-to 2 1/2-inch-long blocks. Cut toothpicks in half (1 for each block). Roll torrone in cocoa powder to coat. Insert toothpicks into torrone blocks, and push blocks into cake, starting from top of 9-inch tier and curving to bottom of 11-inch tier. Using a vegetable peeler, shave milk chocolate; sprinkle over tops of tiers.
• Finish the cake: Carefully transfer assembled cookie house to top of cake. Press cookie doors into cake in front of house. Decorate cake with cookie tree, tombstones, and candy cats, if desired. Press caretaker cutout onto top of cake, behind door. Arrange a flashlight behind cake to shine through door and windows.