When I was in third grade, I won the cake walk at Family Fun Night.
Long lines were expected at the “infirmary” where patients received large gauze wraps touched with blood-red paint. Carnival-inspired games and the ever-popular though accident-inducing Space Walk (large, inflatable jumping cage) were crowd pleasers. My elementary school hosted an annual event called Family Fun Night. While trying to decide what to make, I remembered back to my first cake walk memory. It’s quite thrilling, especially for baking/baked goods enthusiasts! The winner gets a cake as his or her prize. Participants walk in a circle on top of numbers and when the music stops, a number is randomly chosen. For those who don’t know what a cake walk is, I recently heard someone describe it as part musical chairs and part bingo. I always love an excuse to bake and don’t usually shy away from an opportunity to make a layer cake from scratch. This past weekend, I volunteered to make two cakes for the cake walk at our school’s fundraising event, Pumpkinpalooza. Coat in the white chocolate, and let dry on parchment paper.Cakes Desserts & Sweets 2 Comments Add a little Halloween flair to the usual Dirt Cake. Take your pretzel stick and push a marshmallow on each side. Add the melted butter to the chips to make the mixture more workable. Put the chips in a heatproof glass bowl over a pot of simmering water.
#GRAVEYARD CAKE ZIP#
Fill a zip top bag with the melted chocolate and pipe it out on a baking sheet lined with foil in the shape of a tree. Whisk on medium-high until smooth and fluffy. Add the melted chocolates, vanilla and the remaining 3 cups sugar. Arrange chunks of rock candy around.Ĭombine the butter, salt and 2 cups of the confectioners' sugar in a mixer with the whisk attachment. And the chocolate bones, pressing into the sides like an X. Take your chocolate tree and put right through the cake in the back.
Sprinkle more ground wafers on top of the cake to look like dirt. With your black gel, write out RIP on the chocolate sandwich cookies to make them look like gravestones. Don't try to make it perfectly smooth, the more bumpy it is the better, we're creating a graveyard! Place the other cake layer on top and flip it over so the flat surface is up. Sprinkle some ground up chocolate wafers on top. To assemble: Put some Milk Chocolate Buttercream on top of 1 cake layer, pushing out to the sides a bit. Remove the paper and let the cakes completely cool. Loosen the edges of the cake from the pan with a knife, then turn them onto the racks. Remove the pans to racks and allow the cakes to cool for 10 minutes or so.
Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Pour half the batter in each pan and spread evenly with a spatula or butter knife. Turn the mixer to low and slowly add the dry ingredients, alternating with the buttermilk, in 3 batches, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Mix in the chocolate and vanilla, making sure to combine really well. Add your eggs, 1 at a time, mixing until completely incorporated before adding each additional egg. With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, 4 or 5 minutes. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt together onto parchment paper. Line the bottom of each with a round of parchment paper, and then butter the paper. Butter 2 (9 by 2-inch) nonstick round cake pans. Milk Chocolate Buttercream, recipe followsġ/2 (9-ounce) box chocolate wafer cookies, crushedġ bag chocolate sandwich cookies (recommended: Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies)ĥ sticks butter, cut into pieces, at room temperatureĢ 1/2 cups milk chocolate, melted and cooledġ/2 cup unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooledįor the cake: Put a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
#GRAVEYARD CAKE PLUS#
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened, plus more for greasing panģ/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-processed)Ĥ eggs, at room temperature for 30 minutesġ/3 cup semisweet chocolate, melted and cooledġ 1/2 cups well-shaken buttermilk (or 1 cup milk plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice)
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