Brain Cake

Name: Brain Cake
Total time: 7200 s
Yield: 15-20 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250 g cooking margarine; 265 g caster sugar; 240 g self-raising flour; 2 tbsp cocoa; Pinch salt; 50 ml buttermilk; 1 tsp vanilla bean paste; 1 tsp Sugarflair extra red food colouring (but any gel colouring should work); 4 eggs; 2 tsp white wine vinegar; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 80 g butter; 120 g cream cheese; 500 g icing sugar, sifted; 1 tsp vanilla bean paste; Flesh coloured fondant; Edible blood

Katie Davies @katiehomecook

Wales, UK

Halloween is such a fun time of the year and I just love to scare all of the guests in my party, and this brain cake will have people taking a second look! This cake looks so life like but is so simple to make, and is so scrumptious on the inside, with moist red velvet sponge and filled with a light cream cheese frosting!

Katie Davies @katiehomecook

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Ingredients

2 hours including baking and cooling time

15-20 servings

250 gcooking margarine
265 gcaster sugar
240 gself-raising flour
2 tbspcocoa
Pinchsalt
50 mlbuttermilk
1 tspvanilla bean paste
1 tspSugarflair extra red food colouring (but any gel colouring should work)
4eggs
2 tspwhite wine vinegar
1 tspbicarbonate of soda
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
80 gbutter
120 gcream cheese
500 gicing sugar, sifted
1 tspvanilla bean paste
Flesh coloured fondant
Edible blood

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Steps

2 hours including baking and cooling time

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!

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Katie Davies @katiehomecook

on October 23, 2020 21:24

Wales, UK

I am a passionate home cook with a flair for flavor.I was lucky enough to take part in BBC One's Britain's Best Home Cook, with Mary Berry.As a busy working mother with 4 young children, I strive to create recipes which are easy, tasty and nutritious but recipes which won't keep slaving away in the kitchen all day!Keep cooking FUN!If you do make any of my recipes I would absolutely love to see your results, and please get in touch if you have any questions or you would just like to say hi!Find more on www.katiehomecook.com