A Halloween Hit: Gross-out Cakes
My daughter came across Gross-out Cakes earlier this year and was absolutely enthralled. My husband was quick to see the allure. Me, I think the whole book is disgusting. And that's just the point. Gross-out Cakes is a children's cookbook that definitely lives up to its name.
What kid could resist, after all, the likes of Barf Bars or Slime Mousse? And that's just the beginning. There are more than two dozen revolting recipes that are perfectly delicious for Halloween.
Now, how about a slice of Graveyard Cake?
Graveyard Cake
Ingredients:
1 chocolate cake mix (18.25 oz/454 g), plus ingredients
2 Twinkies
1 can chocolate frosting (15 oz/454 g)
1 package chocolate sandwich cookies (18 oz/510 g)
3 Milano cookies
Small plastic skeleton
Directions:
1. Bake cake in greased 9" x 13" pan according to package instructions. Let cool. Remove from pan and place on serving platter.
2. Cut off the bottom half of two Twinkies and place on cake for grave mounds.
3. Create a coffin out of graham crackers, stuck together with frosting. Set on cake.
4. Cut coffin-sized hole in cake. Remove extra cake and place coffin in hole. Make a coffin "lid" out of another piece of graham cracker and place into cake, ajar, next to coffin.
5. Frost cake, including Twinkies and lid.
6. Pipe R.I.P. on Milano cookies.
7. Crush chocolate sandwich cookies in a food processor or with a rolling pin.
8. Sprinkle crumbs over graveyard, with a larger pile next to coffin cover, as if dirt had recently been displaced.
9. Insert plastic skeleton into coffin. Serve.
Cookbook notes: the Graveyard Cake received a 2 for grossness, and a 4 for difficulty.
Serves 12.
Gross-out Cakes, Barlow and Schetselaar, Silverleaf Press, 2006
--Tracy Schneider
CakeSpy on October 28, 2009 at 05:01 PM
I found a book in the library called "Cooking in WetLeather: A Biker Cookbook" and I feel as if it might be a good companion title to this book. ;-) Which, incidentally, I totally see the allure of and think I might need to check out.