date: 2020-07-25T05:01:32.600Z image: https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/ebd5a517e431d385/751x532cq70/brain-cake-recipe-main-photo.jpg thumbnail: https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/ebd5a517e431d385/751x532cq70/brain-cake-recipe-main-photo.jpg cover: https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/ebd5a517e431d385/751x532cq70/brain-cake-recipe-main-photo.jpg author: Christopher Allen ratingvalue: 4.5 reviewcount: 8634 recipeingredient: - "250 g cooking margarine" - "265 g caster sugar" - "240 g selfraising flour" - "2 tbsp cocoa" - "Pinch salt" - "50 ml buttermilk" - "1 tsp vanilla bean paste" - "1 tsp Sugarflair extra red food colouring but any gel colouring should work" - "4 eggs" - "2 tsp white wine vinegar" - "1 tsp bicarbonate of soda" - " For the Cream Cheese Frosting" - "80 g butter" - "120 g cream cheese" - "500 g icing sugar sifted" - "1 tsp vanilla bean paste" - " Flesh coloured fondant" - " Edible blood" recipeinstructions: - "Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Beat the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy." - "Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and salt into a bowl. Mix the food colouring and vanilla into the buttermilk and mix well to combine." - "Add 2 eggs to the sugar/margarine mix, with. few tbsp of your dry ingredients beat until well combined, keep mixing and add the last two eggs, keep mixing until fully incorporated." - "Add half the dry ingredients and mix together on low until combined. Then add all your buttermilk mixture and the remaining dry ingredients, mix until almost fully combined but finish fully mixing by hand. The mix together the bicarb and vinegar and add to the cake mix and mix thoroughly." - "Pour into a prepared 8-inch half-sphere cake pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean." - "Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes in the cake pan then turn out and allow to cool completely." - "For the Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat the butter and cream cheese together until light and fluffy. Add half the icing sugar and the vanilla and beat on the lowest speed until combines. Add the rest of the icing sugar and continue to beat until fully combined." - "To Decorate: Level off the bottom of the half sphere sponge, then cut the sponge in half lengthways. fill with the frosting and cover with a thin layer of frosting, then cut off a small piece each side to create more a brain shape and frost again. Cut a line down the middle of the sponge to represent the two sides of the brain." - "Make two lobes out of the fondant, add them together to the serving board then add the cake on top, to that the cake is slightly raised on one side." - "Roll out sausages of the fondant and use those to create the brain all over the sponge. then spoon over lots of edible blood!" categories: - Recipe tags: - brain - cake katakunci: brain cake nutrition: 102 calories recipecuisine: American preptime: "PT32M" cooktime: "PT31M" recipeyield: "3" recipecategory: Lunch ---  Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, brain cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious. Brain Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It's simple, it's fast, it tastes yummy. It's enjoyed by millions daily. They're fine and they look wonderful. Brain Cake is something that I've loved my whole life. To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have brain cake using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that. ##### The ingredients needed to make Brain Cake: 1. Prepare 250 g cooking margarine 1. Take 265 g caster sugar 1. Take 240 g self-raising flour 1. Get 2 tbsp cocoa 1. Prepare Pinch salt 1. Prepare 50 ml buttermilk 1. Take 1 tsp vanilla bean paste 1. Prepare 1 tsp Sugarflair extra red food colouring (but any gel colouring should work) 1. Take 4 eggs 1. Make ready 2 tsp white wine vinegar 1. Prepare 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1. Take For the Cream Cheese Frosting: 1. Prepare 80 g butter 1. Take 120 g cream cheese 1. Get 500 g icing sugar, sifted 1. Get 1 tsp vanilla bean paste 1. Get Flesh coloured fondant 1. Prepare Edible blood ##### Instructions to make Brain Cake: 1. Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Beat the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. 1. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and salt into a bowl. Mix the food colouring and vanilla into the buttermilk and mix well to combine. 1. Add 2 eggs to the sugar/margarine mix, with. few tbsp of your dry ingredients beat until well combined, keep mixing and add the last two eggs, keep mixing until fully incorporated. 1. Add half the dry ingredients and mix together on low until combined. Then add all your buttermilk mixture and the remaining dry ingredients, mix until almost fully combined but finish fully mixing by hand. The mix together the bicarb and vinegar and add to the cake mix and mix thoroughly. 1. Pour into a prepared 8-inch half-sphere cake pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. 1. Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes in the cake pan then turn out and allow to cool completely. 1. For the Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat the butter and cream cheese together until light and fluffy. Add half the icing sugar and the vanilla and beat on the lowest speed until combines. Add the rest of the icing sugar and continue to beat until fully combined. 1. To Decorate: Level off the bottom of the half sphere sponge, then cut the sponge in half lengthways. fill with the frosting and cover with a thin layer of frosting, then cut off a small piece each side to create more a brain shape and frost again. Cut a line down the middle of the sponge to represent the two sides of the brain. 1. Make two lobes out of the fondant, add them together to the serving board then add the cake on top, to that the cake is slightly raised on one side. 1. Roll out sausages of the fondant and use those to create the brain all over the sponge. then spoon over lots of edible blood! So that's going to wrap this up for this exceptional food brain cake recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I'm sure you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. 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