-Note! I originally got the original recipe online somewhere but I changed it a bit so here is my version. I also did a Thanksgiving cake that I will post below.
You will need:
1 box of MOIST white cake mix and the items needed for that box
1 box of MOIST chocolate cake mix and the items needed for that box
Black, orange and purple food coloring
1 tub of CREAMY white frosting
A Bundt Cake pan
Sprinkles (Optional)
-Preheat Oven to 375°F
This is easier than it looks but takes a while so I gave it a harder difficulty. First you make your cake mixes. Take about 2/3 of the chocolate cake mix and put it in a new container. (I made cup cakes with the left overs). Split the white cake mix into two other containers, equally. Add black food coloring to the chocolate mix. Add orange to one bowl and purple to the other for the white cake mix. Stir thoroughly! You can see this in the first picture.
Grease the daylights out of your Bundt Cake pan. Don't forget around the middle. Now for the swirly design... Take your chocolate mix and pour about 1/4 into the pan. Then pour 1/4 of the orange over it. Do the same with the purple. Now for whatever is left, just kind of drizzle it, one color at a time, until its all used. (See the second and third photo). Bake according to directions on the box but make sure that when a toothpick is inserted, it comes out clean. It may take a few extra minutes.
Let it cool for about 10 minutes then put a plate or something large enough to cover the top. Cover the pan and flip it over so the cake comes out. (Fourth Photo). Take your frosting and divide it into 3 separate containers. Dye one bowl of frosting black, then another orange and the last purple. It is best to pop them in the microwave for about 30 seconds so they can be drizzled easier. Take 3 spoons, one for each color, and begin to decorate. Drizzle a little bit of one color all the way around, then another, then the third and repeat until the frosting is gone and the cake is covered (you may have to re-heat the frosting if it hardens). (Optional: Top with sprinkles).
What I ended up doing, since I made a TON of food for the party, was two days before the party, I made the cake. Then the night before, I frosted. This year, it was the first thing to go. I should have made more than one! It was a hit.
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Since everyone loved the cake on Halloween, I did one for thanksgiving. I used red, orange and yellow food coloring for the white mix. The chocolate was already brown but I bought brown icing coloring for the frosting. I used sprinkles too. I couldn't find any with just red, orange and yellow so I sat and picked all the green sprinkles out of what I could find. THAT was tedious. Here is how that one turned out...
People started eating it before I could get a nice picture of the inside lol. Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to show me pictures of your cakes too!
-Tracey
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