How was Halloween, readers? Are we all suffering from delightful sugar-hangovers?
I have been excited about my Halloween cake for well over a month now. So, I will be brief: this cake is awesome. I mean, not to toot my own horn or anything, but it pretty much rocks.
BRAZILIAN CAKE*
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
Mix** together dry ingredients. Add oil and eggs. Mix** slightly and add 1 3/4 CUPS BOILING WATER. Mix** well. Bake in two 9-inch pans at 375 degrees until done (check with a toothpick–ovens are all so different).
DELIGHTFUL CHOCOLATE FROSTING
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 4-5 cups powdered sugar
- 8-10 tablespoons cocoa
- 4-5 tablespoons milk
Cream sugar and butter. Mix in cocoa. Add milk and mix until smooth.
The white frosting is just your basic, every day white frosting. I don’t have a recipe for it. I needed to get it done quick, and didn’t want to wait to soften more butter, so it consists of a little Crisco, some butter flavoring, vanilla, powdered sugar, and milk. I just added stuff and mixed it until it was a good consistency and flavor. Frosting is not rocket science!
The bats are just sugar cookies, with some black dye (really, the dough was much darker before baking) added to the dough. I didn’t have bat cookie cutters, so I cut the little guys out with a butter knife.
Overall, this cake was quick and easy. But still super cute and tasty!
*I got this recipe from a friend when he was living in Brazil. It is my fail-safe cake. Whenever I have a decorating idea, but don’t have a specific cake flavor in mind, I use this one. I love it that much.
**Mix this cake by HAND. Part of what makes it so good is its texture–a texture that is lost when an electric mixer is used.
2 Comments
Oooooo….so good! Too bad I just started a diet. Will you make one out of lean steak or something? You could decorate it with…um….stuff.
On Firefly, Kaylee makes Simon a birthday cake out of mostly protein (okay, it was pretty much the same stuff they just ate for dinner). Maybe I can work something like that out.
Hmmm. Maybe I just showed too much repressed geekiness here.