HALLOWEEN RECIPES
I found these great coffin
shaped pans in an article in the
Halloween Recipe section at
Halloween-Online.com and bought them. they make a great
cake for a vampire themed party! This article is used by
permission from Halloween-Online.com. If you didn't have a
coffin shaped pan, you can bake a flat sheet cake and cut
the corners off at angles to make an old fashion toe pincher
coffin shape. Check out the real article, it has pictures.
COFFIN
CAKE
Autumn is finally here and
its time to fire up the oven and do a little creative
baking, and have we got the perfect cake for you! With
frosting as black as a moonless night and the inside a deep
blood red color, this terrific coffin shaped Halloween cake
is a wonderfully spooky and tasty treat. Its just the thing
for any Halloween party, a vampire theme night or just as a
midnight snack. What else can we say except.....Mmmm yummy!
The only coffin shaped cake pan we could find is one made by
Pantastic. These are special plastic pans that you can use
in a regular oven as long as you don't exceed 375 degrees.
This coffin shaped pan measures 7" x 13" x 1-3/4" and makes
a nice sized cake. For the cake mix we used Dunkin Hines
brand "Red Velvet" cake mix because of its deep red color.
Below are the instructions for using this cake mix in the
coffin pan. Preheat the oven to 325°.
Grease the pan's sides and bottom with cooking spray.
Combine the ingredients in a large mixing bowl: Red Velvet
Cake Mix, 1-1/4 Cups Water, 1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil and 3
Large Eggs. Blend on low speed for 30 seconds, then at
medium speed for another 2 minutes. Pour the batter into the
pan until it is half full (you will not use all of the cake
mix). Important - Place the plastic coffin pan on a shiny
aluminum cookie sheet for baking. Bake for approximately
30-35 minutes.
While the cake is baking you can mix-up the black frosting.
We used a "Creamy Home-Style Classic Chocolate" frosting.
Its already a dark colored frosting, so requires very little
icing color. First, spoon out the frosting from its original
container into a small mixing bowl. Add about a 1/4 teaspoon
of Wilton brand black "Icing Color" to the frosting and stir
thoroughly until it is well blended and black as a Halloween
night.
Check the cake after 30 minutes using the tooth pick test.
The cake is done when you can stick a tooth pick in its
center and it comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven
and allow it to cool for fifteen minutes. Use a cake top
trimmer or bread knife to trim the top of the cake off flat.
Carefully run a thin bladed knife around the inside of the
cake pan to separate the cake from the sides of the pan.
Release the cake by inverting it onto the serving dish you
wish to use.
Using a cake frosting spatula, carefully spread the black
frosting over the top and sides of the cake as evenly as
possible. Once you've frosted the cake you can use cotton
swabs to remove any frosting that smeared on the serving
plate. You can serve the coffin cake as is or decorate it as
we've done. To make a bat decoration on the cake like we
did, let the frosting set for about an hour or two so that
it won't stick to the cookie cutter as much.
Place a large bat shaped cookie cutter on top of the cake
over the spot where you want the figure of the bat to be and
press it into the frosting slightly. Now, using a cotton
swab, paint the frosting inside of the cookie cutter with a
thin coating of vegetable oil for the sprinkles to stick to.
Carefully spoon in just enough colored sugar sprinkles to
cover the area inside, we used red sprinkles. When you
remove the cookie cutter the figure of the bat is left
behind.
Another option would be to use some edible Halloween cake or
cookie decorations to adorn the cake with. These are
available at most grocery or craft stores during the
Halloween season. Or, if you have the skill you can make
your own Halloween themed decorations by piping different
colored icing onto the cake such as in the figure of a small
wreath, a red rose, a vampire bat, a skeleton, a spider,
etc. But that is a more advanced project.
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