- Hello everybody, welcome back to my morgue theme
macrame, I'm putting a morgue
or like funny, kinda creepy Halloween style video
every single day this week from Monday to Friday.
So today we are making a fault line cake,
which are quite trendy lately.
But we're making it gory and Halloween style,
so it is filled and bursting with brains,
which I think is so cool, oh my goodness!
So let's get started.
So first to make the cake, beat some butter and sugar
with an electric mixer until pale and smooth.
Add some vanilla extract, and eggs one at a time,
mixing with each addition.
And I'll have all the ingredients listed down below
so don't worry about having to write anything down.
In a separate bowl,
combine some flour, baking soda, and salt.
Add this to the batter in two additions,
alternating with some sour cream.
(upbeat ukulele music)
Then divide the batter into two bowls.
Dye one bowl red, and add some chocolate chips.
Then to the other bowl, add some charcoal powder
and some Nutella.
So I use charcoal powder because it's much more potent
than black food coloring, but charcoal absorbs things
so if you're on any medication
it can kind of like negate the medication a little bit,
so if you're worried about that
just use black food coloring, it's totally fine.
This tastes so good, I love adding the Nutella.
Then you wanna dollop both colors of batter
into three greased and floured six inch round cake pans.
Bake them at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30-40 minutes
or until a skewer inserted into the centers comes out clean.
And then cool completely.
Then to make the buttercream,
beat the butter with an electric mixer
until it's pale and fluffy.
Add some vanilla extract, and confectioners sugar
one cup at a time, beating with each addition.
Dye a third of the buttercream pale pink,
and that's gonna be used for the brain.
Then dye the remaining buttercream a flesh color.
So I like to use brown and yellow and combine them
in different quantities to create my desired skin tone.
So if you'd like it to be a little bit more darker
add a little bit more brown.
Then to assemble the cake,
slice the tops and bottoms off the cakes
to smooth the surface and remove any excess browning.
Use a four inch round cookie cutter
to cut the center out of one of the cakes.
So we're using this middle cake
for the area where the fault line is,
but we're gonna save the cake that we cut off.
So make sure not to throw that out.
Then place one of the larger cakes onto your work surface
and cover it in a generous layer of your flesh buttercream.
Which sounds disgusting.
Then pop it into the fridge to chill for 20 minutes.
Then place the smaller cake on top
and coat it in a thin layer of pink buttercream.
You don't need to do the full generous coating
because it's gonna be hidden by the brains.
Then place the remaining large cake on top,
then stick three level two straws
into the center of the cake.
Trim them so that they're flush with the top of the cake
and coat it in another thin layer of flesh buttercream.
And then place the cake in the fridge to chill
for 20 minutes.
Then use a food safe paintbrush and red food coloring
to paint vertical stripes onto the inside of a piping bag.
Spoon the pink buttercream into the bag
and snip a hole at the end
to create a large round piping tip.
Then pipe the brain into the middle space of the cake.
And so what the red food coloring will do,
is it will make the brains look bloody,
so it just adds like more streaks of red.
You don't have to do that if you don't want to,
but I think that it adds like another dimension to the cake.
Then you wanna spread a generous layer
of flesh colored buttercream over the entire top layer.
Then place some of the cake scraps from earlier
and a couple dollops of buttercream into a bowl
and mix with an electric mixer.
And so electric mixers are so handy here
because it breaks apart the cake super well,
as well as mixing in the buttercream.
And this is basically a cake pop base.
And so you wanna shape that into a dome
and pop it onto the top of the cake.
Then use the remaining pink buttercream
to pipe a brain pattern on top.
So you wanna start with two long stripes down the center,
and then pipe little squiggles on each side of the brain.
Then use that same food safe paintbrush from earlier
and dip it directly into some red food coloring
and then dab it onto the cake.
And this is gonna look like cuts and bruises,
and I think it looks so cool!
And lastly, we are making ganache, this is a long recipe.
You wanna pop some white chocolate chips
into a microwave safe bowl and microwave
for 30 second intervals, or until it is fully melted.
Add some red food coloring and mix well.
Then you wanna pop the ganache into a piping bag
or a large syringe, I'll link you down below
if you wanna like buy it just for fun,
I think it adds like an extra touch. (laughs)
And pipe blood all over the cake.
And you are done!
So thank you guys so much for watching,
I hope that you like this recipe.
Last year, I think it was last year or the year before,
I made another bleeding cake,
so if you would like to do the same kinda thing
but without organs (snickers) I have that too.
My channel is weird.
So I'll link it in the cards here if you wanna check it out.
But yeah, I love you guys so much!
Thank you so much for watching
and make sure to stay tuned tomorrow
because I have another creepy, gory,
and morgue themed recipe coming.
So thanks so much, and yeah I'll see you tomorrow!
Bye.