Part 1: Sugar Glaze
Ingredients
Method- 920g Powdered Sugar
- 200g Water
- 10g deZaan Carbon Black Cocoa Powder
- Sift the powdered sugar and deZaan carbon black cocoa powder.
- Mix in the water until smooth.
- Keep covered until needed.
Part 2: Skull Cake
Ingredients
Method- 420g Vegetable Oil
- 840g Granulated Sugar
- 168g Eggs
- 840g AP Flour
- 168g deZaan Carbon Black Cocoa Powder
- 49g Baking Soda
- 16g Salt
- 672g Buttermilk
- 686g Coffee (Hot)
- Combine and sift all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Combine the oil and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix to combine.
- Add the eggs in and make sure that the mixture is emulsified.
- Alternate adding of the dry mixture with the buttermilk.
- On low speed, stream in the coffee.
- Spray the skull baking mold. Pour the batter in ¾ of the way.
- Bake at 180°C/350°F.
- Allow the cakes to cool in the pan. Once cooled, trip the tops off and then remove from the pan. Place the cakes onto a wire rack.
- Glaze.
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