Boo The Friendly Ghost Cake
Ingredients List
- 1 cup - firmly packed Domino® Light Brown Sugar
- 1 cup - Domino® Granulated Sugar
- 1 1/4 stick - butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon - salt
- 3 oz - semi-sweet chocolate, melted and cooled
- 2 - eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups - all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon - baking soda
- 1 1/4 cups - cold water
Seven Minute Frosting
- 1 1/2 cups Domino® Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 chocolate chips and 1 chocolate wafer
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 13x9-inch cake pan. Line with wax or parchment paper. Grease paper.
Beat sugars, butter, salt and chocolate in large mixing bowl at high speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; continue beating 1-2 minutes until well mixed.
In small bowl, stir together flour and baking soda. Add to chocolate mixture alternately with water, blending well after each addition.
Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake 45-55 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Let cool 10 minutes. Turn cake out on cooling rack and cool completely.
Trim top and edges of cake. Using the photo as a guide, draw ghost pattern on 13x9-inch piece of waxed or parchment paper. Cut pattern out and place on cake. Cut out ghost and place on large platter. Frost with Seven Minute Frosting. Arrange chocolate chips for eyes, and half a chocolate wafer for mouth.
Makes 12 servings.
Seven Minute Frosting:
In top of double boiler, combine sugar, water, egg whites, light corn syrup and salt. Beat with electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute. Place over boiling water (upper pan should not touch water) and beat on high speed until stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat; add vanilla. Beat 2-3 minutes more or until easy to spread.
Quick Tip
When frosting cake, keep spatula clean in between applications to avoid cake crumbs in white frosting.