Mini Halloween cakes: the recipe

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The original idea was to make cupcakes with last year's icing and motif (scary faces, ghosts ...). But, while I was depositing the icing, I realized that it was too liquid to cover the cakes (it was beautifully dripping over the cakes...on the contrary, it was perfectly fine for the cookies!). So, I waited an hour to allow that little coverage to thicken and I dusted everything with icing sugar.

Not giving up, I decided to prepare the chocolate ganache with 80% cocoa chocolate...at least, I'll be able to draw the faces, nooo? But instead...I don't know why, but the chocolate had difficulty melting in the cream (will it be because it was 80%?). In the end, I got some sort of chocolate sticky clay, which I let cool down. Without losing hope, I thought I could always shape the cocoa paste to make eyes and mouths to decorate the cakes. Ahem…the cocoa paste was super sticky. I was trying to place it on the cupcakes, but it didn't want to stick to the icing sugar (of corse!) and preferred to stay glued to my hands :(

In the end, I managed to decorate the treats, but I promised myself to study some more suitable icing for the next round ...

Halloween cupcakes

(Makes about 12 cakes)

For the cakes

  • 200 g of flour

  • 230 g of sugar

  • 100 g of Greek yogurt

  • 80 g of butter

  • 4 eggs

  • 3 egg yolks

  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder

To decorate

  • icing sugar

  • 50 g of dark chocolate (50% cocoa)

  • 50 g of fresh cream

Whip the eggs with the sugar until a frothy mixture is obtained. Add the flour and mix until you get a smooth batter. Finally, stir in the melted butter and yogurt. Add the baking powder and whip the batter for a few minutes, so that it incorporates air.

Pour the mixture into muffin molds lined with muffin cups and bake in a preheated oven at 180 C. To check the cooking, use a cake tester. Once ready, remove the cakes from the oven and let them cool.

Bring the cream to a boil, turn off the heat and add the chocolate. Stir vigorously to obtain a ganache. Sprinkle the cakes with powdered sugar and draw eyes and mouths with ganache.

Let the ganache cool down and serve.