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Ghost chocolate cake

Prep Time 2 hours
Cook Time 3 hours
Servings 20 people

Ingredients
  

For each cake (3)

  • 200 gr butter
  • 200 gr dark chocolate
  • 200 gr flour
  • 1 sachet baking powder 11gr
  • 4 eggs
  • 200 gr sugar

Chocolate icing

  • 200 gr dark chocolate
  • 120 gr butter
  • 150 gr icing sugar
  • 5 cl milk

Cake assembly

  • 1 large tube of smarties
  • 1 kg white sugar paste
  • 1 black food pen

Instructions
 

Chocolate cake

  • Melt the chocolate and the butter in a double boiler or in the microwave.
  • Whisk the yolks with the sugar until the mixture turns white.
  • Add the mixture with the melted chocolate then the flour.
  • Beat the egg whites and incorporate.
  • Pour into a buttered mold or lined with parchment paper.
  • Bake at 180 ° C for 1 hour.
  • Let cool before unmolding.
  • Repeat the operation 3 times.

Chocolate icing

  • Melt the dark chocolate, butter, icing sugar and milk over low heat. Monitor and mix regularly so that the mixture does not burn.

Cake assembly

  • Install the plinth.
  • Put a little icing on the round.
  • Place the middle cake with a hole in it over it.
  • Pour in the smarties.
  • Add icing around the cake.
  • Cover with the third cake.
  • Cut the edges of the last cake to round off the head.
  • Cover entire cake with chocolate icing.
  • Roll out a white sugar paste.
  • Cover the cake with.
  • Draw eyes and a mouth with a black pen.