How to Prepare Perfect Brain Cake

Brain Cake.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can make brain cake using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Brain Cake:

1. Take 250 g of cooking margarine.
2. Get 265 g of caster sugar.
3. Prepare 240 g of self-raising flour.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of cocoa.
5. Take Pinch of salt.
6. Get 50 ml of buttermilk.
7. Take 1 tsp of vanilla bean paste.
8. Take 1 tsp of Sugarflair extra red food colouring (but any gel colouring should work).
9. Prepare 4 of eggs.
10. Get 2 tsp of white wine vinegar.
11. Get 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
12. Get of For the Cream Cheese Frosting:.
13. Make ready 80 g of butter.
14. Prepare 120 g of cream cheese.
15. Take 500 g of icing sugar, sifted.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla bean paste.
17. Take of Flesh coloured fondant.
18. Prepare of Edible blood.

Steps to make Brain Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Beat the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy..
2. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and salt into a bowl. Mix the food colouring and vanilla into the buttermilk and mix well to combine..
3. Add 2 eggs to the sugar/margarine mix, with. few tbsp of your dry ingredients beat until well combined, keep mixing and add the last two eggs, keep mixing until fully incorporated..
4. Add half the dry ingredients and mix together on low until combined. Then add all your buttermilk mixture and the remaining dry ingredients, mix until almost fully combined but finish fully mixing by hand. The mix together the bicarb and vinegar and add to the cake mix and mix thoroughly..
5. Pour into a prepared 8-inch half-sphere cake pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean..
6. Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes in the cake pan then turn out and allow to cool completely..
7. For the Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat the butter and cream cheese together until light and fluffy. Add half the icing sugar and the vanilla and beat on the lowest speed until combines. Add the rest of the icing sugar and continue to beat until fully combined..
8. To Decorate: Level off the bottom of the half sphere sponge, then cut the sponge in half lengthways. fill with the frosting and cover with a thin layer of frosting, then cut off a small piece each side to create more a brain shape and frost again. Cut a line down the middle of the sponge to represent the two sides of the brain..
   
9. Make two lobes out of the fondant, add them together to the serving board then add the cake on top, to that the cake is slightly raised on one side..
   
10. Roll out sausages of the fondant and use those to create the brain all over the sponge. then spoon over lots of edible blood!.
    
    
    

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