With Halloween imminet, get creative this spooky season with Siúcra and Catherine Fulvio’s spooktacular homemade sweet treats.
Give them pumpkin to talk about with these Halloween pumpkin mini cakes. Soft and fluffy in the inside with a decadent festive topping to impress all your spooky guests. There’s no tricks here just a treat!
Makes 6
Ingredients
For the cake sponge
100g Siúcra Rich Dark Sugar
120g unsalted butter, softened
2 eggs
150g self-raising flour
70g dark chocolate, melted
3 tbsp milk
For the filling
120g butter
200g Siúcra Icing Sugar
4 tbsp cocoa powder
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
1 orange, zest only
Siúcra Roll Out Icing, for the stems and leaves of the pumpkins
Orange food colouring
Gold shimmer dust (optional )
Materials - mini bundt baking tray
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C /Fan160°C/Gas 4. Make sure the mini bundt cake tray is well greased.
To make the cupcakes, cream the Siúcra rich dark sugar and butter until pale and fluffy. Whisk in the eggs.
Fold in the flour, melted chocolate and milk to form a batter.
Spoon the mixture into the tray and bake for about 8 to 11 minutes until cooked i.e. when a skewer is inserted in and it comes out clean. Allow them to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning them out onto a rack to cool completely before sandwiching them together.
To make the butter cream, cream the butter, Siúcra icing sugar, cocoa powder, cinnamon and orange zest together until smooth and light.
To assemble, when the cakes are cold, to form a ‘pumpkin’, sandwich the bases of two mini cakes together with the buttercream.
Knead an orange colour paste into the Siúcra Roll Out Icing Sugar. Shape out six pumpkin stems and leaves to decorate the cakes.
Place on the ‘pumpkins’ and dust with golden shimmer.
