Halloween is a time that invites to have fun and be creative both in clothes and in food. That is why, this time, we want to teach you how to make an exquisite brain cake. Scary, but easy and delicious, this preparation is ideal to make and enjoy on an original sweet table for Halloween and surprise everyone. To make it, you will need a sponge cake that you will mold into the shape of the brain and some marzipan rolls dyed with vegetable coloring that, combined with the gelatin, will provide the perfect brain effect and texture. In addition, you can use the remains to make delicious Halloween truffles or cake pops to complete your spooky table. You will see that with few steps and cheap ingredients you will not need to break your brain to make this brain cake.
In this article we teach you how to make brain cake for Halloween. Let’s go there!
Additional features: Cheap cost, Recommended for vegetarians, Popular on Halloween, Baked recipes
Ingredients to make Brain Cake for Halloween:
- For the sponge cake:
- 2 eggs
- 120 milliliters of oil
- 100 grams of sugar (½ cup)
- 280 grams of flour 0000
- 60 grams of bitter cocoa
- 200 cubic centimeters of boiling water
- 200 cubic centimeters of cold water
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
- To decorate:
- 150 grams of white marzipan
- pink and red vegetable coloring w/n
- 1 tablespoon of dulce de leche
- 1 tablespoon strawberry or cherry gelatin
How to make Brain Cake for Halloween:
- To start with the brain cake recipe, first prepare the sponge cake that you will use as the base for your brain.
- Also, beat the eggs at room temperature until foamy. When they are, add the sugar in the form of rain while you continue beating until they are ready. This will take you about 7 minutes. Reserve them.
- Dissolve the bitter cocoa with the boiling waterin another container, then add the oil, cold water, and vanilla essence.Beat the cocoa mixture with the egg and sugar mixturethat you had previously made until well integrated. Book it.
- In another container, sift the flour with the baking powder, the bicarbonate of soda and the pinch of salt.
- Add these dry ingredients in about 2 or 3 batches, integrating them gently and with enveloping movements with the help of a hand mixer, taking care not to over-beat. Check that there is no flour left suspended in the bottom.
- When you have ready the preparation of your cake, turn it into a previously buttered mold and with the base covered with parchment paper.
- In this case, it is a detachable mold of 24 centimeters in diameter.
- Cook the sponge cake in the preheated oven at 180ºC for 40 minutes or until, when pierced, no remains of the preparation come out.
- When the sponge cake is cold, take it out of the mold and cut it out with the help of a knife to provide the shape of a brain.
- Reserve the trimmings to eat alone or mixed with dulce de leche to make truffles.
- On the other hand, tint the marzipan with a little pink and red food coloring, without fully integrating it so that it has a certain marbled effect.
- This will make your brain more real. Next, stretch into rolls.
- Spread your brain with dulce de lecheto add the marzipan rolls, imitating the texture of this organ.
- Finally, dissolve the gelatin with a little hot water and pour it over the brain, making sure to cover the holes.
- You can cool it for a few minutes so that it is not so runny and it is easier to distribute.
- Leave some dumped jelly at the base of the brain to give it the sensation of blood.
- Now we can end the preparation of this brain cake!
