Easy Halloween Cake
A delicious and simple Halloween cake for people with zero baking skills.
Ingredients
- 1 (16.5 oz) box red velvet cake mix
- 1 cup water *for cake mix
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil *for cake mix
- 3 eggs *for cake mix
- 1 lb butter *room temperature
- 6 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- Orange food coloring
- 18 Halloween Peeps
- Black edible spray *for decorating
- Silver edible dust *for decorating
- Toy spiders *for decorating
Instructions
- Preheat oven to temperature listed on your cake mix instructions.
- In a mixing bowl, add your cake mix and other ingredients instructed on the cake mix box (mine called for water, vegetable oil, and eggs).
- Mix together until well incorporated. Pour an even amount of cake batter into two springform pans.
- Bake according to package instructions.
- While the cake is baking, prepare your buttercream frosting.
- Add the butter to a mixing bowl.
- Beat butter until it's light and fluffy.
- Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream.
- Beat for a few minutes until well incorporated.
- Squeeze orange food coloring into the buttercream frosting.
- Stir together with a spatula until the color orange is consistent throughout the frosting.
- Once the cakes are done and cool to the touch, begin assembling the cake.
- Lay one cake flat on a cake stand. Spread buttercream frosting on top of the first cake.
- Add your second cake on top of the frosted first cake.
- Spread the rest of the frosting evenly over the entire cake, including the sides. You should not be able to see any of the red velvet cake.
- Add Halloween Peeps all around the sides of the cake.
- Spray the black edible spray and the silver edible dust over the top of the cake.
- Top the cake with toy spiders.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
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