Brain Cake

Pastry:

Red Velvet Cake Ingredients:

• 2 ½ cups flour
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ cups oil
• 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
• 15ml crimson pink colouring

Buttercream Ingredients:

• 250grams butter
• 500 grams icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 teaspoon pink food colouring

Mixed Berries Blood Ingredients:

• 2 cups Früzo Mixed Berries
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla essence

Red Velvet Cake Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 170° c
2. In a bowl mix together milk, eggs, vinegar, oil and colouring
3. Add flour, sugar, cocoa and bicarbonate soda. Mix well
4. Pour into lined baking tins (15cm round x 3)
5. Bake for 30 min or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean
6. Allow to cool

Buttercream Method:

1. Cream butter until light
2. Add icing sugar and beat until well combined
3. Add colouring
4. Mix well
5. Add milk if icing is too thick
6. Keep for later

Mixed Berries Blood Method:

1. Place all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to the boil
2. Allow to simmer for 30 min or until thickened
3. Blend
4. Allow to cool

To Assemble:

1. Trim cakes
2. Add one layer of cake and a layer of buttercream
3. Drizzle mixed berries onto
4. Add another layer of cake and repeat process
5. Finish cake with a thin layer of buttercream around the whole cake
6. Allow to chill slightly
7. You can carve cake to resemble brain shape
8. Once cake has chilled using a piping bag, pipe a brain pattern around cake
9. Drizzle with mixed berries ‘blood’
10. Serve