Halloween Treat: Frankenstein Cake

Hello all! It's been a while! As most of you know, we found out late August that we are expecting baby #2! We are so so excited! I have been very sleepy, and up until recently, I was nauseous all day everyday!

I told Will the other day I wanted to bake something sweet and he said, "Babe, you've really been slackin' on your blog!" GEE THANKS FOR REMINDING ME! SO, I figured I would do something similar to the Valentine's Day treats, and I'd show yall a few fun recipes and designs for easy Halloween themed treats and sweets!

I used a yellow cake recipe, but you can totally used a boxed cake mix! I just prefer the taste of scratch made cake! Also, you could use store bought frosting for the decorating, I just feel like scratchmade buttercream holds up better when doing more detailed designs! It's all about preference!

I hope yall try this out, it's super tasty and obviously, super cute and fun!


----FRANKENSTEIN CAKE----

**Yellow Cake Recipe**

2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
pinch of salt
1 cup of room temperature butter (2 sticks)
1 cup of milk
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a 9x13 baking dish with non-stick spray, set aside.

Add flour, sugar, baking powder and salt to your mixing bowl, and whisk to mix. Add in your butter and milk, and mix until combined.

In a small bowl, gently whisk eggs and vanilla until eggs are well beaten. Add to the rest of the batter, and mix just until thoroughly combined. Some lumps are okay!

Pour into baking dish, and smooth over with a spatula. Bake at 350F for 40-45 minutes of until a toothpick inserted comes out with only a few crumbs.

Take your cake out, let it cool for about 20 mins in the dish, then turn it out onto a cooling rack to cool all the way through.

**Buttercream Frosting**

2 sticks of room temperature butter
3-4 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
milk, cream or half&half -- enough to keep the texture you prefer (usually a few tbsp)
food coloring gel

In your mixer, whip your butter until light and fluffy. Add in powdered sugar, starting with just 2 cups, then 1/4 cup at a time, untilit reaches a nice firm but still light consistency. If you add a little too much powdered sugar, add a splash of milk or cream. Add your vanilla, and continue to whip.

Once your buttercream reaches your desired consistency, seperate into bowls, and add your food coloring. I only seperated a few tbsp for the white eyes, about a cup for the black hair/stitches, and the remaining I colored green for Frankenstein's skin!

(These are the colors I used to color my frosting)

* This recipe can be used for any kind of cake and colored any color! *

---- DECORATING THE CAKE ----

*make sure your cake is fully cooled before decorating, otherwise everything will melt right off!

Since none of the details on this cake need to be perfect, I didn't use my real piping bag or real piping tips. I put the frosting in small baggies and cut the tip off, and just smoothed it out with a small spatula when needed.

I laid down the green frosting first and smoothed it over the bottom 3/4 of the cake, and around the sides as well.

I then piped out some black around the top making sure I covered the top and sides of his head where his hair would be. I smoothed it out, then added more, and used my spatula to create the small strokes to look more hair-like.

(this is the spatula I used for all the spreading and smoothing, I just rinsed it between colors)
I squeezed the remaining black frosting into another bag, and cut a smaller hole so I could do his stitches and mouth.

I used white to pipe the whites of his eyes, then just a small black dot to finish it off!

And that's it! Such an easy design and it is so yummy! Kids and adults will both love it and gobble it right up!!