Skull Cake
This Skull Cake is a bloody and spooky cake for Halloween with red icing along the edge for a blood effect with a mound of skulls on top.
Servings: 12
Calories: 1265kcal
Equipment
- 3 cake pans 9-in round
- 3 cake boards 10-in round
Ingredients
White chocolate skulls
- 3 8 oz bags Wilton white candy melts
- chocolate skull molds
- 3 Red Velvet cake mix
- 6 large eggs
- 1 ½ cup butter unsalted, softened
- 3 cup whole milk
Vanilla frosting
- 2 cup butter unsalted, softened
- 6 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 7 Tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 3 tubes red cookie icing
Instructions
- Follow the directions on the candy melt bag to learn how to melt the candy melts.
- Follow the directions on the molds to learn how to create the skulls, you will need about 15 small skulls and 5 - 6 large skulls.
- Once you have your skulls made, set them aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray your cake pans with pam baking spray.
- Using a standing mixer or hand beater, combine all cupcake ingredients and beat until combined and smooth.
- Pour the cake batter evenly into the cake pans and bake for 25-28 minutes or until a toothpick comes out with little crumbs.
- Allow cooling completely.
- Remove the cakes from the cake pans and onto the cake boards.
- Using a cake leveler or serrated knife, remove the tops of the cakes to make them even in size.
- Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream with paddle attachment until combined, creamy and stiff.
- Using one cake layer, scoop 1 c of frosting onto the cake layer and spread it evenly.
- Place a second cake layer on top.
- Scoop another 1 c of frosting on the second cake layer and spread it evenly.
- Place the last cake layer on top.
- Using the remaining frosting, frost the entire cake.
- Once the cake has been frosted, place it into the fridge for a few hours to allow the frosting to get hard and cold.
- Once the cake is cold, using the red icing, create a drip effect by squeezing the red icing around the top edge of the cake.
- Build a mound of skulls in the center of your cake, using any remaining frosting as glue for the skulls to stack on top of each other.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
Calories: 1265kcal | Carbohydrates: 142g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 77g | Saturated Fat: 41g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 23g | Trans Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 248mg | Sodium: 1379mg | Potassium: 512mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 104g | Vitamin A: 2037IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 273mg | Iron: 5mg