Halloween Cake with a surprise inside

Halloween Cake with a surprise inside

This festive cake is covered in black buttercream, for added flavor use chocolate frosting and make it black with some black gel food coloring. If you use white frosting you have to add quite a bit of black food coloring, so adding cocoa will help the color to look rich and taste delicious too.

The outside may look like a typical Halloween Cake,

but with Halloween you can never be sure what you’ll find…

You didn’t expect this did you?

It reminds me of when you go trick or treating to someones house on Halloween night and it seems all calm and normal from the outside. Then they answer the door and dressed up in some creepy scary costume and the eerie music starts playing and you think to yourself, Do I really want their candy?

Well inside this cake it’s not really eerie or scary, but it catches you off guard.

It all started with this.

I prepared two batches of white cake mix, from a large bag mix. I seperated them into four bowls to tint.

I mixed fun colors of orange, green, purple and white, yes I made it even whiter with Americolor white food coloring.

I wanted to make sure it stood out against the other colors and it worked.

I put different amounts of each cake mix into two 7 inch pans and created a swirled design.

The cakes were baked according to the directions and cooled.

I leveled off the tops so they would stack neatly.

I inverted the top cake so the design would not be identical but a mirror image once sliced with the bottom cake.

Now for the frosting.

I started with 2 store bought chocolate frosting and tinted it black. (using Americolor Super Black Coloring)  I used some in between the two cakes. Then I heated it in the microwave for 30 seconds and stirred it, and poured it on top of the cake.

Yes, poured it.

I wanted a quick and easy way to frost the cake.

I then spread it out with an offset spatula.

I didn’t fuss with it, just gave the sides a quick swoop and smoothed out the top.

I added white frosting to write Boo!

Then added black jimmies to the edge.

The fun began when I cut into it, what a fun cake!

Halloween Cake @createdbydiane

More Halloween treats:

Candy-Corn-Cake-@createdbydiane

Candy Corn Cake

Chocolate-chip-mummy-cake-@createdbydiane.jpg

Chocolate Chip Mummy Cake

Chocolate-Pumpkin-Cut-Out-Cookies-decorated-like-Mummys-for-Halloween-@createdbydiane

Chocolate Pumpkin Mummy Cut Out Cookies

Salty-Sweet-Pretzel-Toffee-@createdbydiane.jpg

Salty Sweet Pretzel Toffee

Halloween-Treats-Created-by-Diane-530x530

More Halloween Treats

sweet and savory recipes createdbydiane.comIf you like this or any other recipe at Created by Diane be sure to sign up for email updates and GET all my delicious recipes delivered right to you! Plus get my free e-cookbook too.

Thanks ~Diane

Be sure to check out more of my recipes here…

Most Popular

Easy Grilled Marinated Steak with Chimichurri Sauce Recipe www.createdbydiane.com
plate of tender pork ribs cooked in the instant pot with corn and collards and baked beans createdbydiane.com
easy homemade cornbread recipe @createdbydiane

Subscribe to Created by Diane

don't miss one yummy recipe

by signing up you agree to the Privacy Policy

Comments

  14. I love it! The colors are so fun! And apparently I need to find some of that white coloring because I love the contrast between the white and all the swirled colors!

    Reply

  29. that looks so cool! diane i was wondering where do you buy cupcake liners from? can you recommend a vendor? Thanks!

    Reply

  35. I totally didn’t see that coming.! What a great idea – i’m not just saying this either …. I am going to make that cake.

    Reply

  43. I want to do this, that is fantastic!!! Did you use 2 white cake mixes? Or is it just one mix in layers, it looks tall? Are the food colorings, gel or liquid food colorings?

    Reply

    • Hi Kristin,
      I used two batches of cake mix from a large bag I get at smart and final. I used two 7 in cake pans. The food coloring I use is Americolor it’s a gel color with little taste. I would make plenty of cake mix if I were you, it looks nice because it’s tall. Take into account the size of the pans you are using also. I can’t wait to hear how it comes out 🙂
      ~Diane

  45. Great surprise!! The inside is my kind of scary:) The colors definetly have their own spookiness going on! And it looks delicious… I want to lick some of that chocolate frosting!

    Jessie B. @ Possible Baker

    Reply

  47. This is great…. I was looking for an idea for my child’s birthday which is today! So I’ve baked the cakes, they’re cooling right now and I can’t wait to frost it and cut into it! Thank you ever so much for the idea…. This is great and something I will be teaching my daughter!!!!

    @—{——————

    Reply

  49. Love the spectacular color surprise! Have to make one for Hallow’s Eve ; ) Thank you for sharing your secret-we all love it! <3

    Reply

    • you can use any pan sizes you prefer, yes 2 8″ pans will work you may have leftover batter if they are 2″ in height (If you are using 2 boxes of cake mix) you can also bake white cake from scratch if you prefer. Depending on how you swirl the colors into the pan will determine how the result looks, don’t swirl too much or they will “blend” together and look muted, the orange is most prominent and I was sure to leave some white cake batter so the cake looked bright, I’ve seen this done with darker colors and it looks good too, it’s just preference really.

Trackbacks

  11. […] Halloween post this year I am sharing a sweet treat with you all. These cakes are inspired by a Created by Diane post shared back in 2011, where she decorated her cakes with “Boo.” The premise behind […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

By posting a comment you agree to the Privacy Policy

Check these out…

appetizer avocado bacon banana beef blueberry Bread breakfast Cake cast iron skillet cheese Chicken chocolate Christmas Christmas Cookies cinnamon coconut cookie Cookies cupcake Cupcakes cut out cookies dinner dip eggs Frosting fruit Holiday Icing jalapeno lemon low carb Mexican pasta Peanut Butter Pizza potato pumpkin salad sauce scone soup sprinkles Strawberry Vegetable