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Zombie Cake

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Ingredients (10-12 servings):

Cake:

  • 2,5 dl buttermilk (or 2,5 dl milk + 1 tsp white wine vinegar)

  • 6 dl wheat flour

  • 5 dl sugar

  • 1 tbsp cacao powder

  • 0,5 tsp salt

  • 1 tsp baking soda

  • 2 eggs

  • 3,5 dl oil

  • 1 tsp white wine vinegar

  • 1 tsp vanilla sugar

  • 2 tsp fuchsia food color

Frosting:

  • 600 g cream cheese

  • 150 g butter

  • 10 dl powdered sugar

  • 0,5 tsp vanilla sugar

  • Fuchsia food color

  • Lime green food color

Fondant:

  • Yellow

  • Fuchsia

  • Green

How to:

Cake:

Turn oven on at 180 C.'

Whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, cocoa powder and sugar in a bowl. Then in a separate bowl mix together oil, buttermilk, eggs, vanilla extract, and vinegar. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until well incorporated. Add fuchsia food color and mix again. Pour batter into 2 lined 23*33cm sheet pans (or similar size) and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

Frosting:

Whip the butter until it turn into a nice white color, then add the cream cheese blend again. Slowly add the powdered sugar and vanilla sugar while blending. Take one third of it and put it in a separate bowl and a bit a fuchsia food color. Then ad the lime green food color to the rest of it.

Decoration:

Once the cakes have cooled completely, remove them from pans. Stack the cakes, spreading fuchsia buttercream in between the layers. Freeze for 30 minutes.

Use a knife and a round cake pan as a guide to round out the top half of the cake. Make sure to save the extra cake and position them on the sides of the cake as ears. Then carve out a big bite-looking part from the top of the head, but make sure to only cut one layer deep.Roll out fuchsia fondant into a long rope. Pipe fuchsia frosting into the brain cavity and fold the fuchsia rope into the cavity to look like a brain.

Frost the outside of the cake with green buttercream frosting. Then cut out dark green fondant pieces for the eyes and mouth, cut out yellow fondant for teeth and iris, and place them on top of the green pieces.

Once fondant has dried completely, arrange facial features on top of the cake, and lastly cut jagged edges at the bottom of the cake.

Ready to serve :D