Chocolate graveyard cake with meringue ghosts
Soft cocoa cake covered with ganache, biscuits and crisp meringue ghosts.
Active time45 min
Cooking2 h
Total3 h 30 minResting : 30 min
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Ingredients
- 1 egg white
- 200 ml single cream
- 200 ml whole milk
- 4 eggs
- 125 g plain finger biscuits
- 85 g unsweetened cocoa
- 25 g white chocolate
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 100 g chocolate cookies
- 200 g self-raising flour
- 175 ml sunflower oil
- 30 small silver sugar balls
- 50 g icing sugar
- 375 g light muscovado sugar
Preparation
Heat the oven to 180 °C. Mix cocoa, flour and muscovado. Whisk eggs, milk and oil separately, then mix into the dry ingredients. Pour into a lined twenty-by-thirty-centimetre tin. Bake for 30 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Turn onto a rack and cool.
200 ml whole milk4 eggs85 g unsweetened cocoa200 g self-raising flour175 ml sunflower oil375 g light muscovado sugar- oven
- bowls
- whisk
- rectangular tin
- baking paper
- skewer
- rack
Lower the oven to 110 °C. Whisk the white to stiff peaks. Gradually whisk in icing sugar until glossy. Pipe 15 small ghosts onto a lined tray. Bake for 90 minutes until dry and crisp. Cool.
1 egg white50 g icing sugar- oven
- bowl
- mixer
- piping bag
- tray
- baking paper
Chop the dark chocolate into a bowl. Heat the cream until it just simmers and pour over. Stir smooth. Brush a thin layer onto the finger biscuits. Cover the cake with the remaining ganache. Crumble the cookies over the top.
200 ml single cream125 g plain finger biscuits200 g dark chocolate100 g chocolate cookies- knife
- bowl
- saucepan
- spoon
- brush
Melt the white chocolate over simmering water. Pipe inscriptions onto the biscuits. Add two chocolate dots to each ghost and attach sugar balls as eyes. Leave for 30 minutes. Push the biscuits into the cake and arrange the ghosts beside them.
25 g white chocolate30 small silver sugar balls- saucepan
- bowl
- piping bag
Allergens
- Eggs
- Gluten
- Milk
Composition to check for: Celery, Crustaceans, Fish, Lupin, Molluscs, Mustard, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Sulphites.
Sources and credits
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