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Eyeball Cauldron Halloween Cake

Eyeball Cauldron Halloween Cake

By Morrisons
Published on 12 October 2020
This eerie eyeball cauldron Halloween cake is really simple and doesn't require much baking knowledge, which gives you more time to make sure those eyeballs and the cauldron look as realistic as possible to give yourself the creeps!
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Time and servings

1 hr 40 minsTotal time
20Servings
1 hrPrep time
40 minsCooking time

Ingredients

  • 1 bag of marshmallows, as many as needed to line your cauldron
  • 450 g of sponge mix
  • 1 tbsp of sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp of seedless raspberry jam
  • 1 dusting of icing sugar
  • 1 black food colouring
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 black writing icing
  • 1 green food colouring
  • 1 red food colouring
  • 6 black jelly beans
  • 170 g of buttercream flavour frosting
  • 1 blue writing icing
  • 1 kg of ready-to-roll icing

Method

  1. Step 1

    Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/ Gas 5. Lightly oil a 20.5cm Pyrex bowl.

  2. Step 2

    Make up the cake mix with the eggs and 6 tbsp water. Pour into the oiled bowl and bake for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Turn the cake out of the bowl and allow to cool.

  3. Step 3

    Knead the black food colouring into one and a half packs of the white icing (remember to wear protective gloves while using food colouring). Roll out two thirds of this on a surface dusted with icing sugar into a circle large enough to cover the cake.

  4. Step 4

    Turn the cake upside down so the flat side faces down. Brush the cake with warmed raspberry jam and lift the icing over it, smoothing down the edges with your hands. Turn the cake the other way up and lift onto a serving plate.

  5. Step 5

    Roll the remaining black icing into a long, thin strip and lay the marshmallows in a line on top. Brush the edge of the icing with water and lift up the edges to enclose the marshmallows and form a long tube. Place this on top of the cake to form the rim of the cauldron.

  6. Step 6

    Roll the white icing into 8 balls. Paint on veins with the red food colouring and pipe on the eye using the writing icing.

  7. Step 7

    Mix the frosting in a bowl with some green food colouring and a few drops of black. Spoon into the centre of the cauldron and fluff up with the back of a spoon. Put the eyeballs in the green ‘soup’ with the jelly beans. We added jelly snakes and teeth too for maximum effect!