Halloween Bleeding Cake

Name: Halloween Bleeding Cake
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 100 min
Ingredients: 120 g butter (room temperature); 2 eggs; 1⅓ cups caster sugar; 4 tsp cocoa; 4 tsp red food colouring; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 240 ml buttermilk (or add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to normal milk); 2½ cups plain flour; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp salt; 3 tsp white wine vinegar; 4-5 cups sifted icing sugar; 100 g butter at room temperature; 250 g cream cheese at room temperature; 1 cup frozen raspberries; 1 tbsp sugar; 1/4 tsp corn starch

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Hello from America! I am writing this post in quite the jet lagged haze, so please excuse if I stop making sense.

I was excited to find out that this month’s Sweet Adventures Blog Hop was Halloween themed! I wanted to create something gruesome but beautiful, and ofcourse delicious. I toyed with the idea of lychee eyeball cupcakes before finally settling on a bleeding cake.

This cake features 2 stories of red velvet cake, covered in cream cheese frosting and adorned with a tasty trickle of homemade raspberry syrup. The finishing touch is a knife plunged into its middle!

Halloween Bleeding Cake

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Cake

Prep Time: 1 hour

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes

Servings:

Author: Swah

Ingredients

Red Velvet Cake

120 g butter room temperature
2 eggs
1⅓ cups caster sugar
4 tsp cocoa
4 tsp red food colouring
1 tsp vanilla extract
240 ml buttermilk or add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to normal milk
2½ cups plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3 tsp white wine vinegar

Cream Cheese Icing

4-5 cups sifted icing sugar
100 g butter at room temperature
250 g cream cheese at room temperature

Raspberry Blood

1 cup frozen raspberries
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp corn starch

Instructions

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line 2 x 20cm cake tins.
Cream the butter, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy.
In a separate bowl mix the vanilla extract, cocoa powder and red food colouring into a paste. Add the paste to the creamed mixture.
Add half the buttermilk and mix until combined, followed by half of the flour and baking powder. Mix until incorporated and then add the remainder of the buttermilk and flour and mix thoroughly.
Add the salt, bicarbonate of soda and white wine vinegar and continue mixing for another 5 minutes until combined.
Pour the mixture evenly into the 2 cake tins.
Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Allow the cakes to cool slightly in their tins before turning out onto a wire rack

Cream Cheese Icing

Cream the butter and icing sugar together until well mixed.
Add the cream cheese in cubes slowly until incorporated. Continue mixing for 5 minutes until the icing is light and fluffy.
Using an offset spatula, spread 1/3 of the icing on top of the first cake layer.
Place the second cake on top and gently sandwich the 2 layers together. Spread a thin layer of icing over the top and sides of the cake. This is referred to as a "crumb coat" which prevents the crumbs from messing up your final ice. Put cake in fridge to chill for around 30 minutes.
With your remaining icing, use your offset spatula to cover the top and sides as evenly as possibly (don't worry, mine wasn't particularly neat!)
If you feel fancy, pipe a ruffle of icing along the base of the cake.

Raspberry blood

Puree raspberries in a blender or food processor until smooth.
Push through a strainer to separate seeds from liquid.
Over a medium heat, bring strained raspberry liquid to a boil, add sugar and corn starch and stir until thickened for around 2 minutes.
Allow to cool completely.
Pour over

This was such a rushed job and I finished the photos literally 1 minute before I left for the airport. But I am pleased to report it tasted amazing and had the intended “beautiful yet macabre” look I intended!