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Terrify and delight this Halloween with a dramatic chocolate red velvet cake, sandwiched with an easy cream cheese frostingIngredients
For the red velvet cake
175g soft butter, plus extra for greasing
225g white caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tbsp red food colouring paste (we used Christmas red from Sugarflair)
200g plain flour
50g cocoa powder (we used Green & Black's)
1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
150g pot low-fat plain yogurt, loosened with 2 tbsp milk
Method
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. For the cake, grease 2 x 20cm sandwich tins and line the bases with baking parchment. Cream together the butter, sugar and vanilla, then add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg, until fluffy and light. Beat in the colouring.
Mix the dry ingredients for the cake, and sift half onto the creamed mix. Fold
in with a spatula, followed by half of the thinned yogurt. Repeat, then spoon the smooth batter into the tins and level.
Bake for 25 mins or until risen and springy when pressed lightly in the centre. Cool for 10 mins, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
For the fingers, line a baking tray with parchment. Cut one end from each chocolate finger. Mix 50g icing sugar, the milk and a small blob of colouring to make a thick, red icing. The icing needs to be thick to stay put; add a little more sugar if you need to. Dip the severed biscuit ends into the icing, let the excess drip off, then paint a red fingernail on the other end, using a small paintbrush. Leave to dry on the parchment.
For the frosting, use an electric mixer to beat the butter well until very smooth, then beat in the cream cheese and the zest (if using) until even. Sift in the remaining icing sugar, then fold it into the cheese mixture using a spatula until smooth. Don’t overbeat. Chill until needed.
Sandwich and cover the top and sides
of the cake with the frosting – you will only need a thin layer on the sides of the cake to stick on the chocolate fingers. Stand the severed fingers around the cake in a neat collar, pressing them lightly into the frosting. You’ll have a few left over to put on the top. Keep the cake in the fridge but enjoy it at room temperature.
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Spooky 4 Course Menu for Halloween
By EmmaBrown1
The Inspiration
I have to admit I love summer. But I should let go of it and prepare for the next season. And for me the best part of autumn is Halloween, of course. It has been long since the last time I trick-or-treated. However, this doesn't make me less excited about the holiday.
Usually, I plan the celebration during September but this year I decided to start even earlier. Already, there are numerous wonderful lenses here on Squidoo about Halloween decoration, costumes, recipes and tricks. I was inspired!
So, I would like to bring to your attention my Spooky 4 Course Menu for Halloween.
Are you ready to be scared?
Scary Mask
Scary Mask
Ingredients
500 gr ham
300 gr yellow cheese
4 -5 boiled eggs
200 gr mayonnaise
2 -3 pickled cucumbers
2 olives
foil
carnival mask
Instructions
Boil the eggs and grate the cheese. Slice half of the ham in thin pieces and dice the other half. Chop the eggs and the pickled cucumbers. Mix them with the diced ham, the yellow cheese and the mayonnaise.
Cover the carnival mask with foil. Arrange the thin slices of ham over it and cover the whole area. Put the salad on top of it and smooth it with a knife. Place the mask in the fridge for couple of hours. After that, carefully tip the mask over a tray. Then remove the mask and the foil. Fix the shape of the salad if needed. Use olives for eyes.
Ta da! Scary, ain't it?
Puff Pastry Mummies
Puff Pastry Mummies
2. Appetizers: Puff Pastry Mummies
baby sausages (as much as you want)
1 packet puff pastry sheets
peppercorns
Instructions
Thaw the puff pastry sheets in room temperature and cut them into strips. Roll a strip around a baby sausage and put 2 peppercorns for eyes. Arrange all mummies in a baking tin. Preheat the oven to 220 C (430 F) and bake the mummies until they are nicely tanned
Meringue Ghosts
Green Salad With Dracula's Teeth
Broomstick Breadsticks
Roast Chickens With Vampireproof Garlic Garland
Risotto in Decapitated Pumpkins
Envy Green Brussels Sprout Eyeballs
Summon the scarlet-clad devils, elegant princesses, ethereal angels, and audacious pirates to a ghoulish Halloween feast, costumed with tricky metaphors.
A goblin green salad sets the scene, speckled with pomegranate seeds.
Breadsticks shaped like witches' brooms are an apt partner in first-course dark arts. Succulent chicken encircled by a garland of roast garlic keeps vampires at bay, while minipumpkins filled with risotto and envy green Brussels sprouts revel on the side.
Enter the spirits for dessert, disguised as sweet, crisp meringues, to delight kids of all ages.
Start prepping the salad and make the breadsticks, pumpkin shells, and meringues up to a day ahead so the trick isn't played on you.
Crispy Phyllo Wrapped Hot Dog Mummies
Mummy Cake
Every year at this time, I try to find some new ghoulish and creepy way to terrify my sweet young sons (in a motherly-love kind of way). Nothing like a coffin shaped cake, with a mummy lying on top to make them squeamish, but delighted. The vanilla cake, raspberry filling and chocolate ganache, on a bed of dirt made from Oreo crumbs, may be spine tingling enough for kids on Halloween, but tasty enough for the parents as well.DIRECTIONS
To bake the cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and line a baking sheet (13 x 18-inch) with parchment.
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt, set aside. In a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter on high speed until softened. Add the sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, beating on medium speed, until well combined. Scrape down the side of the bowl after each. Add the flour mixture, milk and vanilla and mix on medium speed until well combined. Scrape down the side of the bowl and mix for an additional 30 seconds.
Spread the batter evenly over the prepared pan. Bake for about 20 minutes in the center of the oven, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool the cake on a rack.
Once the cake is cool, use a coffin shaped cookie cutter to cut the cake. Reserve 1/2 cup of the scraps to use in the raspberry frosting.
To make the ganache: In a large saucepan, heat the heavy cream over medium heat, just to a simmer. Remove from heat; add the chocolate chips and butter. Swirl the pot to make sure all the chips are covered with the hot cream. Let it sit for 2 minutes and then gently stir until smooth. If using, stir in the rum.
Place the cut cakes on a cooling rack, set over a baking sheet lined with parchment. Pour the ganache over the coffin cakes, making sure to cover the sides. Once they are all covered, let them sit until the ganache can set firm.
To make the frosting: Mix together the butter, confectioners' sugar and vanilla, until very smooth and fluffy. Add the heavy cream to create a frosting that will be soft enough to pipe a smooth line. Stick your finger in the frosting and when it comes out in a smooth point, it is ready. Divide the frosting into two bowls; add the raspberry preserves to one of them. Stir in 1/2 cup of cake scraps until smooth.
Using a small round pastry tip, pipe out the outline of the mummy on top of the ganache.
Use a very small, straight tip (the kind you would use when piping a basket weave), to pipe the mummy's wrapping.
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