Frighten away those chocolate urges with this hauntingly delicious chocolate cake cut and frosted to look like a black cat.
Halloween Black Cat Cake
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 4 hr 25 min
- Servings 16
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
- 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Devil's Food Cake Mix
- Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
- 2 1/2 cups from 2 tubs (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Chocolate Frosting
- Tray or cardboard (20x14 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
- 2 yellow Betty Crocker™ Fruit Gushers™ Fruit Snacks (from a 5.4-oz box) or 1 large yellow gumdrop
- 1 small black gumdrop
- Black shoestring licorice
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Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Spray bottoms and sides of 2 (8- or 9-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray.
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Step2Make and bake cakes as directed on box for 8- or 9-inch round pans. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Refrigerate or freeze cakes 30 to 60 minutes or until firm.
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Step3Using serrated knife, cut rounded top off cake to level surface; place cut side down. Cut cake and arrange pieces on serving tray. (See link below for diagram.) Attach pieces together with a small amount of frosting. Spread a thin layer of frosting over top and sides to seal in crumbs. Refrigerate cake 30 minutes.
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Step4Frost entire cake with remaining frosting. Use yellow fruit snacks or gumdrop slices for eyes, black gumdrop for nose and shoestring licorice for whiskers, lines on eyes and front paws. Store loosely covered at room temperature.
Nutrition
320
Calories
15g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
45g
Total Carbohydrate
31g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving (Cake and Frosting Only)
- Calories
- 320
- Calories from Fat
- 130
- Total Fat
- 15g
- 23%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 25%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 35mg
- 12%
- Sodium
- 330mg
- 14%
- Potassium
- 85mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 45g
- 15%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 5%
- Sugars
- 31g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 6%
- 6%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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