Ingredients
110g unsalted butter
200g caster sugar
2 large eggs
250g self raising flour
120ml semi skimmed milk
1 tbsp cocoa powder
blue & yellow food colouring
red jam (I used strawberry)
To Decorate
chocolate buttercream
vanilla buttercream
jelly sweets eg, snakes, worms, body parts etc..
Method:
Preheat the oven to 16oC fan oven/180oC
cream together the butter and sugar
add the eggs one at a time and beat well
add the sifted flour and milk at alternate intervals, again beating well
divide the mix into 2 bowls
bowl 1 – ghoulish green cakes
add some drops of yellow and blue food colouring to turn the cake batter ghoulish green
line a muffin tin with paper cases
spoon in a heaped tsp of batter, then add a tsp of jam and then add another tsp of cake batter
bowl 2 – mudpie cakes
add 1 tbsp of cocoa powder and mix well
line a cupcake tin with cake cases
spoon batter into the cases
bake the cakes for about 20-25 minutes until cooked all the way through (ie. knife comes out clean)
For the chocolate cakes
Top cupcakes with your chocolate buttercream.
I have to admit here to using some squirty buttercream which I found in the supermarket today (Dr. Oeketr) which was so easy to use – I was actually able to pipe buttercream onto a cake and it looked neat and professional (this has NEVER happened before)
Top buttercream with creepy crawly sweets and you have
Mudpie Cakes
For the ghoulish green trick cakes
Top with vanilla butter cream
(again Dr. Oeketar buttercream in a can came to my rescue!!)
Add some drops of yellow food colouring to give extra eeriness (?)
Add some jelly sweets to make a scary face
When you open up the cake you get a trick in the form of blood (jam!) mwaaaaahhh!
Don’t forget to add my I Love Cake badge which is in my side bar
Thank you xx
ooh love those
They look fab, may have to make them for the kiddies as a Halloween treat ….and to try and avoid going out trick or treating!
Looks fabulous, and very gruesome! You are cruel! Can you imagine putting something horrid inside the chocolate cakes but something scrummy inside the grim looking ones?!
Hee hee yes I could!! How wicked off me! X
These look fantastic!
Thanks for mentioning the buttercream. I’m going to attempt making some cupcakes for Harrys Christening but was stuck on the icing front but will now get some of this and see if I can use it as well as you did! 😀 xx
Thanks Laurn. I cannot pipe buttercream to save my life, but this was easy, and if I can do it……. Good luck xx
Wow love the green one! Kids would love those! x
They are fantastic!! There are some great entries! x
I love the sound of both, but the green cup cakes with buttercream Mmmmm!
What brilliant cakes! I love the one with teeth the best I think!
Such a brilliant collection of cakes, thanks for linking this up to ShowOff ShowCase.