Ingredients for the Halloween Monster Cake

• 250 g FunCakes mix for Choco Sponge
• 400 g Callebaut Chocolate Mousse Dark
• 200 g Deco Melts of your own liking (For example, white, black, green and pink)
• Candy eyes
• FunCakes Mini Chocolate Rocks Dark
• FunCakes Halloween Sprinkles
• FunCakes Sugar Decoration Halloween
• 2 packages of Peanut butter peppers / pretzel sticks
• 150 g egg
• 55 ml water
• 500 ml full milk

Other necessities for the Halloween Monster Cake

• Deep round pan Ø 20x7,5cm
• Cooling grid
• Palette knife

Step 1: Bake the chocolate sponge

Preheat the oven to 180°C (convection oven 160°C). Mix the choco sponge baking mix, the eggs and the water and beat the batter at the highest speed for 7-8 minutes and afterwards for 2-3 minutes on a low speed. Fill a greased baking pan (filled 1/2 to 2/3) and bake the cake in the preheated oven. Remove the baking pan directly after baking and let it cool off on a cooling grid.

Step 2: Make the chocolate mousse

Meanwhile, make the chocolate mousse by whisking the mix together with the milk. This is best done with an electric mixer. After mixing, place the mousse in a fridge for an hour to stiffen up.

Step 3: Make Halloween monster-sticks

Melt the Deco Melts in a bowl on 500W maximum. Stir the melts every 15-20 seconds. Stop heating the melts as soon as the melts have almost melted entirely (small pieces can be visible). Keep stirring until the melts are completely smooth. When the deco melts are melted, you can scoop a bit of it on a pretzel stick. Decorate the sticks further using candy eyes, chocolate rocks or other sprinkles and let them harden up on a sheet of baking paper.

Step 4: Building and decorating the Halloween Monster Cake

To assemble the cake, start off with a layer of chocolate sponge. On top of this, put some of the chocolate mousse. Then add another layer of chocolate sponge, mousse and finish it off with the last layer of sponge. Divide the rest of the mousse over the top and sides of the cake and cover it. Then, put the 'monsters' against the cake and finally, decorate the monster cake with sprinkles of your own choice. Bon appetit! 

This recipe was made possible by Antilliaans Eten.