Our Halloween Chocolate Sheet Cake is simple and really perfect for kids and adults alike. If you cut the chocolate cake into slices, you will have delicious brownies in no time, which you can also decorate in a variety of ways. We will provide you with a basic recipe and a few ideas for cake decorations.
Prepare a tray-baked chocolate cake for Halloween
Whether you serve the chocolate cake as it is or straight awayCut brownies, is up to you and may also depend on the cake decoration you choose. For the Halloween chocolate cake you need:
- 345 g Butter
- 560 g chocolate chips or couverture (preferably dark chocolate, but milk and dark chocolate are also suitable)
- 50 g Die
- 6 large, cold eggs
- 200 – 250 g sugar
- 1 ½ TL Vanilleextrakt
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- 300 g Flour
- 100 g baking cocoa
- optional: chocolate chips to fold in
- optional for adults: 1 tbsp espresso powder
Prepare the dough and bake the cake
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Line a baking tray (approx. 33 x 45 cm) with baking paper.
- Melt butter, chocolate and oil in a double boiler or microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between.
- Meanwhile, use a hand mixer to mix the eggs with the sugar, vanilla (possibly espresso) and salt.
- Then fold in the chocolate-butter mix.
- Then stir in the flour and cocoa powder with a wooden spoon, just until everything is roughly mixed.
- If you want, you can also fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour the chocolate batter into the baking tray and bake for 25 minutes.
- Allow the brownie cake to cool before decorating.
How to decorate the sheet cake for Halloween
The decoration ideas are not only cool, but also very easy to make, so even your children can help with the design. Later they can proudly point out to the guests that they were involved in the cake.
Turn the sheet cake into a graveyard for Halloween
Get some extra snacks to share with or for the kidsto design a cemetery. The dark color of the cake is the perfect base.
- Cut out tombstones from light cookies, white chocolate or something similar.
- Crumble darker cookies in a bowl.
- Melt dark chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave as described in the recipe.
- Put some of the chocolate in a piping bag and write “RIP” on the prepared gravestones.
- Spread them on the cake and use the cookie crumbs to create mounds of dirt in front of the gravestones.
- Dip long pretzel sticks into the chocolate and use the chocolate to stick them to the edges of the chocolate cake. Alternatively, you can stick them in the cake.
How to create a spider web on the cake with marshmallows
This decoration idea is a bit tacky, but it's fun and really effective in the end.
All you have to do is melt some marshmallows in the microwave, but not for too long, otherwise they will become too liquid and, above all, too hot for your needs. Work in intervals so that the mixture does not burn (heat for 15 minutes, stop, then again for 15 seconds and so on). Once they have a thick consistency and the mixture has cooled slightly, you can take a small amount between the fingers of both hands and pull it apart, creating the cobweb look. Place this web-like mass over the cake.
Make your own mummy cake in just a few steps
Melt forMummies with bandageslight chocolate and place it in a piping bag. Create criss-cross lines across the cake. It's so easy that even children can try it. Finally, add sugar eyes here and there, preferably before the chocolate has set, so that the eyes are fixed straight away.
Chocolate icing with integrated ghosts
Prepare dark and white chocolate by melting them. Spread the dark one over the entire cake. Put the white into a piping bag and use it to drip onto the dark chocolate icing before it has set. Using the handle of a spoon or a kebab skewer, pull the white chocolate down to a point. Now use dark chocolate or black sprinkles to create the ghosts’ eyes.
Ideas for muffins with ghostscan be found here.
Colorful and cheerful for Halloween
Colorful sugar sprinkles and a few Smarties are perfect for the design. Halloween sprinkles often also contain sugar eyes, which add the finishing touch to the colorful cake decoration. If not, you can buy them separately or even make them yourself.
Spread a chocolate icing first so that the sprinkles can stick better to the cake. With a piping bag you can add a few chocolate patterns and finish off with a few eyes here and there.
