Rezept
Zubereitungszeit ca. 300 MinutenVorbereitung ca. 60 MinutenKochzeit ca. 60 Minuten
Zutaten:
- 1 batch chocolate cake (Substitute the dutch cocoa powder with black cocoa powder)
- Extra black gel food coloring if needed (I like to use wilton or Americolor)
- 2 batches chocolate buttercream (substitute the dutch cocoa powder with black cocoa powder)
- Extra black gel food coloring if needed
- 240 g white chocolate chips
- 100 g heavy cream ((about ½ cup))
- 1 tsp rose water extract
- Pinch sea salt
- red gel food coloring (You can use wilton or americolor)
- Soft brown gel food coloring (You can use wilton or americolor)
- Halloween sprinkles of your choice
Arbeitsschritte:
- White Chocolate Filling
- Make the white chocolate filling first so it has time to cool down to room temperature.
- Heat the cream + rose water extract + salt in a saucepan, until it starts to steam (near boiling, but not actually boiling).
- Add the white chocolate chips and let them sit for a few minutes, with the pan covered.
- Stir to completely melt the white chocolate chips in the cream. (All of the white chocolate chips should melt in the residual heat.)
- Add a few drops of red gel food coloring and mix it in. Then add 1 or 2 drops of the brown food coloring to deepen the red color to a blood-like red. Set aside to cool to room temperature. Once cool, set aside until needed.
- Black Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C. Place cupcake liners in 2 cupcake trays.
- Make the batter according to the recipe here. Replace the dutch cocoa in that chocolate cake recipe with the black cocoa, and mix a little black food coloring in the milk before adding it to the cake batter.
- When you have the black chocolate cake batter ready, use a 4 tbsp (or ¼ cup) cookie scoop to scoop the batter into the cupcake liners in the cupcake tray. You will have some leftover cake batter - just cover it with plastic wrap and set aside in the fridge.
- Bake the two cupcake trays in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes, rotating the trays once, at the 15 minute mark. I prefer to bake the cupcakes in the same rack for even baking.
- The cupcakes will be done when a toothpick inserted in the middle, comes out clean.
- Remove the cupcakes from the oven and let them cool down for about 5 - 10 minutes. Then gently remove them from the cupcake tray.
- Repeat with the remaining cupcake batter.
- Black Frosting
- While the cupcakes are baking / cooling, make the frosting.
- Make the chocolate buttercream frosting according to the recipe here. Replace the dutch cocoa with black cocoa. Add a few drops of black food coloring if needed, at the end of the whisking stage.
- Scrape the black frosting into a large piping bag that is attached with a large open star or closed star piping tip.
- Assembling the Cupcakes
- When the cupcakes have cooled down, remove a cone or funnel-shaped piece from the center of the cupcakes with a sharp knife as shown in the pictures in the post.
- Fill the cavity with room temperature white chocolate ganache.
- Frost the cupcakes with the black frosting. I like to frost them with a large swirl, but you can frost them however you like.
- Sprinkle Halloween sprinkles on top, and serve. (Note: remember to warn your guests that the cupcakes will "bleed", so that don't get “blood” on their hands! Or clothes.)