// Halloween chocolate cake
Moist and creepy
Here I leave you the recipe for this delicious Halloween chocolate cake.
It is soft, moist and fluffy. Covered with chocolate ganache and decorated with spiders made with Oreo cookies and licorice. This cake will make your palate tremble 😋👻🕷️🖤🕸️
Ingredients: Cake (24cm square mold)
- 🥚4 eggs @pazodevilane
- 🍬200g sugar
- 🫒160ml mild olive oil
- 🥄1tsp vanilla essence
- 🌾180g plain flour or pastry flour (without impeller)
- 🥄12g baking powder @royal_postres
- 🍫75g pure cocoa powder
- 🧂A pinch of salt
- 🥛170ml warm milk
Ingredients: Syrup
- 🚰150ml of water
- 🍭50g sugar
- 🥄1/2tsp vanilla essence
Ingredients: Chocolate ganache cover
- 🍫120g dark pastry chocolate
- 🍶120ml whipping cream min. 35%FC
- 🧈45g butter
Ingredients: Decoration (Optional and to taste)
- 🕷️Spiders with oreo cookies
- 🎃Sprinkles
Elaboration
- 🕷️Preheat the oven to 165ºC, grease and cover the mold with baking paper
- 🕸️Beat the eggs with the sugar until you get a creamy mixture
- 🖤Add the oil, vanilla essence and beat until well integrated.
- 🕷️Add the warm milk and mix
- 🕸️Add the previously sifted flour along with the cocoa, baking powder and salt. Mix a little with the spatula and beat for a couple of minutes.
- 🖤Pour the mixture into the mold and bake at 165ºC for 30 minutes. Before removing from the oven, check with a toothpick that it comes out dry.
- 🕷️Remove from the oven and let cool on a rack and unmold
- 🕸️Prepare the syrup; Put the 50g of sugar, the water and the vanilla in a saucepan. Cook until it comes to a boil. Let it cool before using
- 🖤Prick the cake with a skewer stick and moisten with the syrup
- 🕷️Prepare the ganache; In a bowl, chop the chocolate, heat the cream without boiling and pour it over the chocolate, mix a little and add the butter. Mix with a whisk, let it cool to thicken and pour over the cake. Let cool and decorate to taste
- 🕸️I decorated it with spiders that I made with Oreo cookies, sprinkles and a spider web with marshmallows
I hope you enjoy this spooky and delicious chocolate cake 🖤🍫🕷️
