Halloween Cake Recipe

Boo! Meet our spookily delicious Halloween Cake. An orange flavoured cake topped with a dash of chocolate and cute little meringue ghosts – a great centerpiece for Halloween Parties!

Halloween Cake

Ingredients

Orange Cake

• 250 g Butter
• 200 g Castor Sugar
• 2 nos Orange Zest
• 4 nos Eggs
• 280 g All Purpose Flour
• 8 g Baking Powder
• 4 tbsp UHT Milk
• 2 tbsp Orange Juice

Italian Buttercream and Deco Ghost

• 250 g Sugar
• 60 g Water
• 125 g Egg whites
• 375 g Butter
• 2 g Coloring Orange
• 2 g Colouring Black
• 2 g Orange Essence

Chocolate Glaze

• 100 g Dark Chocolate
• 20 g Butter
• 100 g Cream

Instructions

Orange Cake

• Mix in butter and sugar and beat till fluffy.
• Add in egg along with the grated orange zest.
• Pour in AP flour and baking powder, and slowly incorporate it
• Add orange juice and milk.
• Divide the batter into 3, 5” baking pans.
• Bake at 170°C, for 15 minutes or until the cake is done.
• Remove and allow to fully cool.

Chocolate Ganache

• Combine chocolate and cream in a pot.
• With slow heat melt the chocolate
• Add butter and let it fully melt and stir until fully combined
• Transfer it into a piping bag
• Use it immediately
• Then, let it slightly cool and add butter

Italian Buttercream

• Combine sugar and water and boil until it reaches 117°c
• Whipped the egg whites until soft peak and add the hot syrup
• Beat the meringue until room temperature
• Divide into 2 equal bowl
• In bowl #1 beat until room temperature and add the cubed butter
• Once smooth add essence and colouring beat until fully combine
• In bowl #2 beat until room temperature and pipe the ghost and bake in 90°c preheated oven for 30 minutes or until it came out easily from the baking tray
• Once baked let it cool completely before begin painting

Please don’t blame us if your guests come ‘haunting’ back for more slices of cakes.

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