Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet

Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet. Happy Friday 🙂 Hello friends. So are you looking for some Halloween recipes today? In particular a Halloween cake?

Do you fancy making this ultimate Halloween cake? So today I am sharing a step-by-step guide.

This spooktacular dessert is sure to cast a spell on your taste buds and add a ghoulishly delightful touch to your Halloween celebrations. Sink into a slice of sweet darkness!

This chocolatey red velvet cake is also a real showstopper. It would make a great addition to your party food this Halloween, Especially as a table centrepiece.

Table Of Contents:

1. Firstly, Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet Ingredients.
2. Secondly, Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet Method.
3. Thirdly, Other Recipe Ideas.

How To Make An Ultimate Halloween Cake:

Indulge in the ultimate Halloween treat with this Chocolatey Red Velvet Cake! Sink your teeth into layers of rich, devilishly dark chocolate and blood-red velvet, perfectly paired with a yummy cream cheese frosting.

Preparation time: 40 minutes, plus cooling and setting
Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes, plus cooling and setting

Serves: 12-14

Ingredients:

• 200g salted butter at room temperature, plus extra for greasing
• 350g plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 ½ tbsp cocoa powder
• ¼ tsp fine sea salt
• 375g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1½ tsp vanilla extract
• 284ml carton buttermilk
• 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 2 x 10g packs Dr Oetker red gel food colour

Cream Cheese Filling:

• 120g salted butter at room temperature
• Also 120g Philadelphia soft cheese
• And 120g of icing sugar

Chocolate Icing:

• 300ml carton double cream
• 250g dark chocolate (70% cocoa), roughly chopped
• 1½ tbsp liquid glucose
• 50g white chocolate, roughly chopped

Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet Method:

Here is how to make one to share:

1. Step One: Firstly, preheat the oven to 170˚C, gas mark 3. Grease the base and sides of a 23cm springform cake tin and line with baking parchment. So sift together all the dry ingredients except the sugar; set aside. Using electric beaters, cream the butter and sugar for 1 minute. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition, then beat in the vanilla. Beat in ¼ the dry ingredients, then 1/3 the buttermilk and repeat, until fully combined. Mix the vinegar and food colouring together; beat into the mixture. Scrape into the tin and spread until level; tap the tin on the work surface to knock out any air bubbles. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Set on a wire rack and leave to cool completely in the tin.
2. Step Two: Secondly, make the creamy filling. For the filling, use electric beaters to beat together the butter, soft cheese and icing sugar. Remove the cake from the tin and cut horizontally into 3 even layers (use a serrated knife). Take the bottom layer and place it on a baking sheet, spread with ½ the filling, then repeat with the middle layer of cake and the remainder of the filling; top with the final layer of cake. Leave to set in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.

Step Three:

Thirdly,

• Step Three: For the icing, melt the cream, chocolate and glucose together in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water (making sure the base of the bowl doesn’t touch the water). Melt the white chocolate in another bowl using the same method and pour it into a small piping bag.
• Step Four: Fourthly, invert the cake onto a wire rack so there is a flat surface for the icing; set it over a tray to catch the drips. Working quickly, pour the dark chocolate icing over the middle of the cake. With a palette knife, use long strokes to push the icing over the sides to create an even coating over the whole cake.
• Step Five: Starting slightly off centre, pipe a white chocolate spiral from the centre of the cake out to the edges (the tighter the lines, the more dramatic the effect). Take a cocktail stick and, starting from the centre, pull it through the white chocolate to the outside. Repeat, working around the cake, to create a spider’s web effect (see our Food Editor’s Top 5 page for more tips). Let the icing set for about 20-30 minutes. To store, keep refrigerated, and bring to room temperature before eating.

Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet:

*(Updated Post)*. First published here on the 19th of October 2017. Ultimate Halloween Cake Recipe c/o: For more Halloween inspiration, please visit Waitrose & Partners/Halloween.

Do you like the look of this cake? As well as wanting to try it right now, like me? Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet:

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Ultimate Halloween Cake: Chocolatey Red Velvet:

Thanks for stopping by today. Are you a fan of Halloween? I like Halloween but loved it when the children were younger. We always used to dress up and made party food. Good times. Maybe mostly for the fun party food as well as the cake!? Ha!

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