Cemetery cake

Submitted by IBIS Backwarenvertriebs GmbH from Aachen

Difficulty:
Easy

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Serving size: 4-5

Ingredients

  • 2 packets IBIS Lemon Flavoured Mini Cakes (210 g each)
  • 50 g butter
  • 150 g dark chocolate
  • 250 ml cream
  • 5 rectangular butter biscuits
  • 100 g icing sugar
  • 3 light mini chocolate biscuits
  • black and red food colouring from the tube
  • 2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder

Also:

  • Chocolate sprinkles for dusting
  • Halloween decorations (e.g. black spiders, goo eyes, mini-skeletons) to taste

Instruction

Place a square baking frame (approx. 17 x 17 cm) on a cake plate. Crumble 1 packet of IBIS Mini Cakes and place in a bowl. Melt the butter and add it. Mix everything together with your hands and pour into the cake tin. Press down well to form a base and chill, covered, until ready to use.

Chop the dark chocolate. Put 100 g of it in a bowl. Heat the cream and add to the bowl. Leave to stand briefly, then stir until smooth and chill, covered, for at least 3 hours.

In the meantime, melt the remaining chocolate over a water bath. Place the butter biscuits on a cake rack and brush with the melted chocolate. Leave to dry completely.

Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and stir with a very little water to make a thick paste. Pour into a freezer bag, cut off a small corner and use to decorate two to three gravestones with crosses and two to three gravestones with "R.I.P.". Allow to dry again.

Paint grimaces on the mini chocolate kisses with black and red food colouring as in the photo and leave to dry.

Whip the chocolate cream until stiff. Spread half on the Mini Cakes base, keep the rest to coat the sides and refrigerate. Carefully crumble the second packet of Mini Cakes. Spread over the chocolate cream and sprinkle thickly with cocoa powder. Leave to rest in the fridge for at least 2 hours until serving.

Before serving, carefully remove the edge of the cake and spread the sides with the remaining chocolate cream. Cover the sides with chocolate sprinkles, insert the decorated biscuits into the cake as tombstones, spread the grimaces in between and decorate with more Halloween decorations as desired.

Preparation time: 20 minutes (+ cooling time)