For this year’s Halloween, I decided to make these monster cakes with gorgeous superfood colors by Suncore Foods! I wanted these monsters to be cute rather than scary. And I’ve used a lot of colors all organic, natural, healthy, and works beautifully with both buttercream and fondant! Don’t they look adorable?? The worst part is I couldn’t stop photographing them! 🙈
Now for the recipe, I’ve made chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and some store-bought ready-made white fondant for decoration. The chocolate cupcake recipe is very simple and it doesn’t need any fancy mixer. It’s a one-bowl mix and bake cake! The buttercream recipe is a standard one and never fails me!
I’ve used piping tip 234 to pipe the monster hair.
If you are making cupcakes use 233 tip for monsters hair.For the fondant decorations, you can mix the superfood color of your choice( I’ve listed what I’ve used under the fondant decorations- ingredients ) with the white fondant and make your monster decorations. To make the black fondant, I’ve added black cocoa powder the white fondant and made the eyeballs and the mouth of the monster.
You can omit the fondant decorations and use some candy eyeballs instead and decorate the cakes.
This is the recipe:
Monster Cakes- Olive oil Chocolate Cake/ cupcakes with Superfood buttercream.
Ingredients:
Cake
All-purpose flour- 21/4 cup
Granulated sugar- 21/4 cup
Cocoa powder- 11/4 cup
Baking powder – 2tsp
Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
Water – 11/2 cup
Espresso powder- 2 tsp
Vanilla extract – 2 tsp
Salt – 1 tsp
Large Eggs- 4 ( room temperature)
Olive oil- 1 cup
Buttercream:
Unsalted butter- 1 cup ( softened to room temperature)
Confectioners sugar- 4.5cups
Heavy cream- 1 tbsp or 2 tbsp depending on the consistency
Salt- a generous pinch
For blue buttercream
Suncore foods Aqua Blue spirulina superfood powder – 2 tsp – 3 tsp
For yellow buttercream
Suncore foods canary yellow safflower powder- 2-3 tsp
For Green buttercream
Suncore foods Aqua Blue spirulina superfood powder- 1 tsp
Suncore foods canary yellow safflower powder- 2-3 tsp
For pink buttercream:
Suncore foods red velvet beet powder – 1 tsp
Suncore foods purple sweet potato powder- 1 tsp
Fondant decorations( optional)
Black cocoa powder
White ready-made fondant
Suncore foods canary yellow safflower powder
Suncore foods Aqua Blue spirulina superfood powder
Candy eyeballs
Method:
Preheat oven to 350f.
Line 3 6” baking pans with parchment paper.
Take all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat all the ingredients until it’s very well mixed using an electric mixer. Make sure to scrape the bottom while beating.
Divide the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 20-25 mins till done.
For the buttercream, beat the butter for 2 mins. Then add the other ingredients listed under buttercream and beat for 1 to 2 mins until fluffy. Then add the color of your choice listed in the buttercream ingredients and beat well till the color is well incorporated. Frost as desired.
I’ve used piping tip 234 to pipe the monster hair.
For the fondant decorations, you can mix the superfood color of your choice( I’ve listed what I’ve used under the fondant decorations- ingredients ) with the white fondant and make your monster decorations. To make the black fondant, I’ve added black cocoa powder the white fondant and made the eyeballs and the mouth of the monster.
You can omit the fondant decorations and use some candy eyeballs instead and decorate the cakes.
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