Every year brings me a new maniac. This year was around chocolate candies. I found on ebay nice silicone molds on good price, so I ordered some.
So I planned to make a little chocolate cake for Halloween with nice skull chocolate candies on top. Here we are
So I planned to make a little chocolate cake for Halloween with nice skull chocolate candies on top. Here we are
Not a big thing but I like it.
The base is an easy Hungarian cake recipe, called 'Kefíres', because it need kefir instead of milk. The basic recipe is too simple [kefir, flour, sugar, oil, egg, baking powder] to me so I always put this and that into the batter to make it a little bit – how to say – fanciful or what.
If you want my chocolate cake recipe here it is:
You'll need
160 g natur kefir
280 g cane sugar [the original recipe says white sugar but I avoid table sugar when I just can]
200 g rice-flour [if you like to avoid gluten like me, if not, than use wheat flour or what you want]
2 1/2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
2 eggs
6 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 pack baking powder
1/3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 [420 g] can halved apricot [pour offed] or frozen raspberry [the best is the fresh fruit of course but it's October]
1 tbsp flaked almonds
1 70-75% dark chocolate bar [about 200-250 g, broke into small pieces]
a little water
1 tsp unsweetened cocoa
flaked almonds [for decoration]
Method to make it
In a bowl mix the kefir, the sugar, the flour, the cocoa, the eggs, the oil, the baking powder, flaked almonds and the cinnamon. Stir it well. Do not use electric whisker/beater but hand whisker only!
The base is an easy Hungarian cake recipe, called 'Kefíres', because it need kefir instead of milk. The basic recipe is too simple [kefir, flour, sugar, oil, egg, baking powder] to me so I always put this and that into the batter to make it a little bit – how to say – fanciful or what.
If you want my chocolate cake recipe here it is:
You'll need
160 g natur kefir
280 g cane sugar [the original recipe says white sugar but I avoid table sugar when I just can]
200 g rice-flour [if you like to avoid gluten like me, if not, than use wheat flour or what you want]
2 1/2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
2 eggs
6 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 pack baking powder
1/3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 [420 g] can halved apricot [pour offed] or frozen raspberry [the best is the fresh fruit of course but it's October]
1 tbsp flaked almonds
1 70-75% dark chocolate bar [about 200-250 g, broke into small pieces]
a little water
1 tsp unsweetened cocoa
flaked almonds [for decoration]
Method to make it
In a bowl mix the kefir, the sugar, the flour, the cocoa, the eggs, the oil, the baking powder, flaked almonds and the cinnamon. Stir it well. Do not use electric whisker/beater but hand whisker only!
Grease and flour a small round cake pan [18 cm] then pour the batter into the pan. Add the apricots one by one into the batter, but avoid the edge of the pan, because the apricot can burn to the pan easily.
Bake the cake on very low high about 1 1/2 hour. But the best if you use a fork to check the cake from time to time, when the fork come out clean, then the cake is ready.
Place the pan somewhere cold till the cake cool out comletely. Then try to take out the cake and place it onto a nice bigger plate.
In a smaller handy pot melt 1 chocolate bar on the traditional way. Set up a double boiler with a small amount of water and warm it over medium heat. Melt the chocolate just until the mixture is smooth. Stir it constantly. Add about 35 ml water and the 1 tsp cocoa. Stir it well.
Then coat the cake with this chocolate mixture. As for decoration place little chocolate candy figures on top and add some flaked almonds as well. Done.
For the chocolate candy [if you want to make some]
2 70-75% dark chocolate bars [broke into small pieces]
a little cream [I use lactose-free cooking cream]
ground cinnamon
ground cardamom
ground clove
Melt 1 1/2 chocolate bars in a small handy pot. If it melted completely then set your chosen mold and make the candies on the common way. But for filling try out mine.
My granache filling
In another small pot melt the leftover 1/2 chocolate bar. Add a little cream and 1-1 pinch of ground cinnamon/cardamom/clove to it. Stir it well and constantly. If the result is creamy and not runny that's the good.
As for the Halloween menu, I was modest this time [because the lunch was too much and long…] so I just made small open faced sandwich bites… BITES… Hehe
2 70-75% dark chocolate bars [broke into small pieces]
a little cream [I use lactose-free cooking cream]
ground cinnamon
ground cardamom
ground clove
Melt 1 1/2 chocolate bars in a small handy pot. If it melted completely then set your chosen mold and make the candies on the common way. But for filling try out mine.
My granache filling
In another small pot melt the leftover 1/2 chocolate bar. Add a little cream and 1-1 pinch of ground cinnamon/cardamom/clove to it. Stir it well and constantly. If the result is creamy and not runny that's the good.
As for the Halloween menu, I was modest this time [because the lunch was too much and long…] so I just made small open faced sandwich bites… BITES… Hehe
brown bread + butter [mixed with garlic!, salt and chive] + PICK téliszalámi + [lact. free] Trappista + hot Piros Arany
plus here is my favourite ketchup flavoured puff snack with me, it's gluten free and dinosaur-shaped yeee!
+ tea tea tea
aaand homemade coconut-vanilla tea
Planned movies for the evening
1. Saxana or The Girl on the Broomstick [1972, retro Czechoslovak fantasy] – at last a witch with bunnies instead of black cats [boring stereotyping things]
2. Hotel Transylvania 2 [new to watch, the first was – not something original - but cute]
3. Morgiana – another Czechoslovak classic from 1972, gothic/art film. If you missed it you must watch it!! [if you are into 70's goth style] Especially those exaggerated makeups are deadly Haha ~Oh and the main character's name is Viktorie （｀ー´） aaand this movie also "has" an evil cat, just like in the Housu… I think I know the design of my next tote bag… *rubbing hands*
4. Stonehearst Asylum [new to watch, but Poe adaptations usually are very good]
5. Ringu ~to sweet dreams~ Hahha - I love ring films but the original Japanese ones only.
Happy Halloween! Ψ(oﾟvﾟo)Ψ
