Halloween Cake - My Weekend Plan

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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