Halloween Party Cake
by Evans Wilson
(North Carolina)
Halloween Cake Or Halloween Wedding Cake
Ok, it was not for an actual wedding. It just sort of grew into a wedding cake for the Halloween Party.
To make the cake shown:
2 boxes of White Cake Mix (made as directed, you will need egg whites, oil and water)
2 containers of white cake frosting
1 can of blackberry pie filling
1 rectangular cake pan (I think is 13 x 9)
1 bundt cake pan
Halloween Wedding Cake topper (you can get them on eBay, or at wedding shops) or Dia de los Muertos cake topper or Corpse Bride Cake Topper, (you get the idea)... Mine is resin. Cleaned and supported well, just about any appropriate sized statue could work (by the way, the bride and groom in my picture are from the "Love Never Dies" collection).
Make the rectangular cake first. Make one entire box of white cake mix in this pan. I didn't have a plate big enough to hold it, so I covered a cutting board with aluminum foil.
Let the cake cook for about 10 minutes. Then you put the board, aluminum side down, over the cake pan.
With kitchen "hot pads" grasp the cake and the cutting board together and invert. The cake will fall onto the board. Then remove the cake pan and the cake is in place on the board.
Make an entire white cake mix and fill the bundt cake pan to bake. While the bundt cake is baking, you can frost the rectangular cake. I used white icing.
When the bundt cake comes out of the oven, it will be way too hot to put near the frosted cake. Let it cool for about 10 minutes. Cover the bundt pan with a dinner plate that fits and invert it. The bunt cake will be in position on the plate and the pan will come away. Let the cake cool completely on the dinner plate.
When the bundt cake is cool, use a second dinner plate and invert again. Now invert this plate again using a hand under it for support, and the cake lands in place on the rectangle cake. Use matching white frosting and frost the bundt cake.
Use the frosting to seal any spaces between the bundt and the rectangle cakes.
The bundt cake has a hole in the middle of it. Don't worry about frosting in there. Set a tiny plastic snack cup in there (right side or upside down, whichever fits better, it doesn't matter). Put your cake topper centered on the plastic cup. If part of the topper hangs over, don't worry about it. The bulk of the weight is still on the cup. Make the fit seamless and invisible with a little frosting as needed.
I opened a can of blackberry pie filling. Pouring off some of the sweet syrup, I came to sweetened blackberries in the can. With clean fingers and a toothpick, I moved the blackberries only (no syrup scooping) onto the top of the bundt cake. I made a complete circle around the top of the cake, aligning blackberries and setting then in place.
When I walked away, gradually, the blackberries started to slide down the cake. Seriously, it was in a circle when I left it.
As the blackberries moved, they left tiny black/purple trails across the white icing. There was only the sugar syrup inside each blackberry, I drained the syrup off before I made the circle. The result is in the picture.
Even though the blackberries are drained, they tumble down the cake anyway. The effect looks like blood and the blackberries appear like blood clots.
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