Stab Victim Cake

Poor Chris. When he left his home factory, we can assume that he must have been quite sure that he was going to spend his life as a jolly gigantic gingerbread man. And then, by some sinister and cruel blow of fate he was shipped to my house. Where he now spends his time being killed. Over. And over. Again.

Mwuahahahahahahah!

:D

Ahem. Anyway, I am really going for the Hallowe’en thing today. No, I have not decorated the house. But we’re having a kind of party – our horror film club gang is coming round and we’re watching John Carpenter’s original Halloween. Obvious choice. And we’re having Stab Victim Cake! We’re not dressing up though. Dressing up is for Eurovision parties, duh.

Today, Chris is a pumpkin and peanut butter cake decorated with three different kinds of chocolate, some coloured sugar icing, blue sprinkles, a bit of rose hip jam, and a shard made from mint candies. I am posting the cake recipe below for your convenience. The cake is lovely when baked in a rectangular tin, iced with dark chocolate and served as squares. It’s lovely and rather cool when used to bake Chris* the Dead Guy. :D

* All characters appearing in this cake are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
That is to say, I am not ritually killing my dear friend’s husband or my sports trainer or anybody else I know who’s called Chris. Chris the Dead Guy is called Chris because he was my first shark attack victim. It all makes sense now, doesn’t it? Of course you know that in Jaws, the first shark victim is called Chrissie.

Pumpkin and peanut butter cake

Ingredients
200 g pumpkin
2 eggs
250 g peanut butter, at room temperature
200 g sugar
50 g ground peanuts
5 tbsp milk
150 g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 pinch salt

Method
Grate and/or chop the pumpkin into tiny little pieces. Separate the eggs.

Beat peanut butter and 150 g sugar with an electric whisk for about 2 minutes. Add the egg yolks one after another, keep beating. Then add the ground peanuts and the milk, stir them in carefully. Sift and fold in the flour and the baking powder.
Whip the egg whites, slowly adding the remaining 50 g sugar, until very stiff.
Fold stiff egg whites and pumpkin into the batter, alternating, 1 tbsp each at a time.

Bake at 180°C for about 30 minutes.

A dark chocolate icing goes very well with it.

 

 

Update:

Husband took the crime scene pictures! :)

 

Old: Shark Attack Cake

For our birthday party in 2010, I baked a shark attack.

The shark is another lemon shark; the swimmer is a cherry sponge cake (which also explains the slight acne on his back…), and the guts are cherries too – with a bit of food colouring to make it look more fun! :) The swimming trunks are made from sugar icing and green food colouring and the sea is sugar icing with blue colouring; the hair is milk chocolate with a lot of love and care and patience to make it look like hair. I loved making this one!