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Feast your eyes on this bewitching Biscuiteers Halloween Cake Recipe. This devilishly indulgent Halloween Red Velvet Cake, features layers of rich red velvet sponge, is filled with velvety chocolate frosting and covered in a cluster of hand-iced spider cookies. Follow the recipe below and invite your friends and family to sink their fangs into this dreadfully delicious Red Velvet Halloween Cake. For the Halloween Red Velvet Cake recipe you will need: ![]()
Preheat your oven to 350ºC (fan oven) or gas mark 6. Grease and line 4 8" sandwich cake pans Cream together the butter and sugar until it’s a pale yellow colour and a fluffy texture. Slowly add in your eggs, one at a time. Add in the red food colouring and the yoghurt and beat everything until it’s mixed well. Sift the flour and cocoa together, then add half to the batter. Beat in the wet mixture and finally add the second half of the flour mixture. In a ramekin, mix together the bicarbonate of soda and the vinegar, which will fizz as you add them together. Add to your mixture immediately, folding everything in with a spatula. Distribute the mixture into 4 cake pans. If you don't have 4 pans, you can split the mixture between 2 pans and then slice in half once they have baked. If you are able to, bake all at the same time, if not just bake your cakes two at a time. Place in the oven, on a medium shelf, and cook for 20-30 minutes, or until a skewer poked into the middle comes out clean. Once cooked turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Whilst the cake is cooling make the chocolate buttercream icing. Beat the butter for 4-5 minutes until smooth and fluffy. Add the icing sugar and cocoa powder, then beat for another 2 minutes until smooth and evenly incorporated. You can add up to 1/2 cup of extra icing sugar if you'd like the frosting to be thicker. Once the cakes have cooled spread the buttercream frosting evenly in-between each layer. Put the apricot jam in the microwave for around 30 seconds until it is slightly warm. Using a pastry brush, cover the cake with a thin layer of apricot jam. Once your cake has completely cooled you can begin decorating. Prepare your line icing, using our easy line icing recipe (only make 1/4 of the quantity) To create your pattern, start by icing a small circle, then ice several lines moving in an outward motion, away from your circle. Once you’ve done this, connect these lines with some more white line icing and repeat the process until your cake is covered. Finish off the cake with some Scary Spider Cookies from our Halloween Collection. And there you have it! A devilishly delicious Halloween Red Velvet Cake. Remember, if you're feeling like a zombie and don't have time to make your own tasty Halloween treats, you can get something just as mouth watering delivered right to your door from Biscuiteers Halloween Collection.
How To Bake | Halloween Red Velvet Cake Recipe
01 October 2023
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5 mins
Ingredients
- - 3 cups + 2 tbsp of plain flour
- - 2 cups + ½ cup of caster sugar
- - 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- - 50 ml red food colouring
- - 50g of cocoa powder
- - 1 teaspoon salt
- - 1 teaspoon baking soda
- - 4 eggs
- - ¾ cup + 1 tbsp of plain yoghurt
- - 1 cups + 2 tbsp of unsalted butter
- - 2 table spoons of apricot jam (for the glaze)
- - 1 cups + ¼ cup + 2 tbsp icing sugar
- - ¼ cup + 3 tbsp softened unsalted butter
- - ½ cup sifted cocoa powder
serves:8
difficulty:easy
60 mins
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Top Tip
It's important that the cake is completely cooled before you begin decorating otherwise the icing will drip & melt.