Creepy Graveyard Cake
- 515 g butter
- 300 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- 300 g self-raising flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 150 g flour
- 15 g cornflour
- 15 g cocoa
- 75 g chocolate
- 300 g icing sugar
- chocolate sprinkles
- icing
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
- Line a 23cm x 32cm roasting tin with baking paper.
- Beat 250g butter until really soft.
- Add 250g caster sugar, the eggs, self-raising flour, baking powder and 2tbsp of the milk.
- Beat together until evenly mixed and creamy.
- Put in the tin and bake for 40-45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly pressed.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- For the biscuit headstones, mix 115g butter with 50g of the caster sugar.
- Divide into two equal portions and add half the plain flour and the cornflour to one portion, and the rest of the flour and the cocoa to the other.
- Mix until just evenly blended.
- Pat each piece of dough into a flat block, wrap in clingfilm and chill for 15 minutes.
- Roll out each piece of dough between two sheets of clingfilm, to the thickness of a pound coin.
- Cut out rectangles and crosses using cutters.
- Lift onto baking trays and bake for 10 minutes.
- Leave to cool.
- For the chocolate butter icing, melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and stand it over a pan of simmering water (the base of the bowl must not touch the water).
- Cool until tepid and still a liquid.
- Beat 150g butter until soft and then gradually add the icing sugar.
- Add 2tbsp milk and the melted chocolate, and beat until light and creamy.
- Spread the top of the cake and three rectangle biscuits with the chocolate butter icing.
- Sprinkle the biscuits with chocolate sprinkles and put on the cake to represent graves.
- Dust two light-coloured biscuits with cocoa and one dark one with icing sugar.
- Pipe 'RIP' on each and put on the cake, along with worms made from rolled-out icing.
- You'll have biscuits left over, which can be served separately.
butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, milk, flour, cornflour, cocoa, chocolate, icing sugar, chocolate sprinkles, icing
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/creepy-graveyard-cake-494752 (may not work)