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Recipe

Ghostly chocolate cakes and pumpkin cakes

Mar 31, 2009 1:00pm
  • 30 mins preparation
  • 25 mins cooking
  • Serves 10
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Ingredients

Pumpkin cakes
  • 350 gram pumpkin, steamed, mashed
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 1 orange, finely grated zest
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 125 gram butter, chopped, at room temperature
  • 2/3 cup caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4杯自发面粉,sifted
  • green modelling paste
  • 6 spearmint leaves (to decorate)
Glaze icing
  • 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
  • 1 tablespoon orange juice
  • orange food colouring
Ghostly cakes
  • 470 gram packet chocolate cake mix
  • jam
  • marshmallow
  • 700 gram white modelling paste
  • 醋栗(一半)

Method

Pumpkin cakes
  • 1
    Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan forced). Lightly grease a 12-hole, 1/3-cup capacity bundt pan (or muffin pan).
  • 2
    Place cooled pumpkin mash in a bowl. Stir sour cream, zest and cinnamon through.
  • 3
    In a medium bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in Vanilla.
  • 4
    Fold flour and pumpkin mash through mixture. Divide between recesses, levelling tops.
  • 5
    Bake 20-25 minutes, until cooked When tested. Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely. Trim tops to flatten.
  • 6
    To make the glaze icing, combine icing sugar and juice until smooth. Tint with colouring.
  • 7
    Spread a little icing on trimmed side of cakes. Sandwich two cakes together. Drizzle with a little more icing. Tint modelling paste green and roll to form stem and vine. Place on pumpkin with spearmint leaf.
Ghostly cakes
  • 8
    Prepare cupcakes using a packet chocolate cake mix. Trim tops. Place trimmed side down on a board. Brush cakes with warmed jam. Top each With a marshmallow.
  • 9
    Divide white modelling paste into 10 equal portions. Dust a clean work surface with icing Sugar and roll each into a 15cm round. Drape over each cake. Press in currant halves to form eyes.

Notes

MAKES 12 Pumpkin cakes MAKES 10 Ghostly cakes

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