Pumpkin is the real star of Halloween and the perfect ingredient to prepare our Halloween Cake. Cooked in our kitchen in Milan, we want to recommend deliciously sweet and shockingly tasty recipes with pumpkin, flour, sugar, butter, and other tasty ingredients. They’re not created to interpret the Halloween theme as you’ll see, but can be enhanced and transformed with simple decorations for a sure fire impact.
Pumpkin icing
What could be better than the beautiful color of pumpkin to create fancy decorations on our Halloween cakes? Here’s how to prepare it. Cook in a saucepan for 10 minutes 11 oz pumpkin pulp cut into cubes with a little more than half a glass of water, then drain and blend. In the meantime, melt 4 ½ oz brown sugar with some vanilla berry seeds and add the blended pumpkin to the heat, stirring well. Take about three tablespoons of the mixture from the pot and mix them in a bowl with 1 ½ oz of corn starch and add to the rest of the mixture. Turn on the heat and bring to the boil stirring. Now the icing is ready to decorate your cake!
Blueberry sauce
Instead of using the classic icing, we can enhance our cakes with a simple blueberry sauce. Prepare plenty of it by heating 12 oz sugar and 1 cup water until completely dissolved. Now add 12 oz blueberries, lower the flame to the minimum, and cook for about 10 minutes. Let it drip onto your cake before serving for a definite creepy effect.
Ghost meringues
A big impact decoration for a Halloween cake that you can respect are ghost meringues. To prepare about twenty of them, you will need 2 egg whites and 4 oz caster sugar, a teaspoon of cream of tartar and to decorate with black food coloring. For the meringues, whip the egg whites and add the sugar a little at a time while continuing to whip. Finally, add the cream of tartar while continuing to whip with electric whisks at full power. Put the mixture in a sac à poche with a smooth tip and start creating the ghosts by squeezing the mixture forming two small rounds that end with a tuft on a sheet of baking paper already spread on a plate. Bake at 100°C for 40 minutes, let cool and draw eyes and a mouth with the help of a toothpick.