Maybe this is taking a stab in the dark, but I bet your dying to try a slice of this cake! This Bloody Halloween cake is a delicious red velvet four layer cake with cream cheese filling, topped with a vanilla buttercream frosting, and covered with a red ganache. The blood-like red ganache, looks so spooky, perfect for a Halloween Cake!To make this bloody Halloween cake, first bake and cool your cake with two 8 inch cake pans. Split each cake, and fill with cream cheese frosting. Let cake sit in refrigerator for 2 hours to let the frosting set…this will help make sure you don’t have bulges outside of your cake when you frost it. Next apply a crumb coat all over the cake. Red Velvet cake makes a lot of crumbs! Let it sit in refrigerator until frosting has set, about 20 minutes. Next frost your cake with the buttercream frosting. Now comes the fun part!
Make the red ganache and pour it into a squeeze bottle. Carefully squeeze ganache along edge and allow it to drip down the cake. Then fill in the middle with remaining ganache.
Ingredients
- 12 ounces of red candy melts
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- red food coloring
Instructions
- chop up red candy melts
- color cream with red coloring, and heat cream in pan till starts to boil
- pour cream over candy melts in a bowl
- stir until smooth
Red Velvet Cake Recipe Here
Vanilla Buttercream Recipe Here
Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Here
Enjoy!
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I love Halloween! My best friend’s mom hosts a party every year and there is a haunted house, games for the kids and a costume party, its so fun! I can’t wait to go this year, thing is she lives in New York. This cake looks yummy, you did a great job.
Hi Leslie, that party sounds so fun! I am glad you stopped by to comment
Gorgeous and very impressive looking cake!!
I’d definitely loooooooooove a huge slice to eat
thank you Winnie! I wish I could send you a big slice
Can anyone describe to me what the red candy melts taste like? Trying to get an idea what the red ganache will taste like against the cake. Thank you! Also, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen red candy melts at the grocery store. Are they located on the baking aisle?
Thank you!
Hi Shelby, candy melts taste like chocolate. you can get candy melts at Michaels, or at Walmart, or at a specialty baking store :)they usually don’t have them at the grocery store
Hi! Will this harden enough to “paint” the chocolate drips? I’m needing to make a drip cake for my niece and need to paint the drips gold
thanks so much!!
Hi Angela, I have a post here where I paint the drips gold. hope it helps!
http://sayitwithcake.org/blue-and-gold-boy-scout-cake-with-gold-ganache/
How did you get the knife to stay in the cake without falling over?
Hi Abbie,
I just stuck the whole blade in up to the handle and it stayed put
Thank you for this post!!! One q…what make of red food colouring do you use? And is it gel? X
yes I use americolor gel red
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Thank you so much for the recipe! It was a big hit. And, even though I’m a mess froster, it worked to my advantage this time!
Here’s my not-so-pro version! It’s a pic link.
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14601109_663104620516049_5936901321426642208_n.jpg?oh=e06e6e8b00fc4f3fb00368bec38bcadd&oe=58A47660
Thank you for sending the picture! your cake turned out really good and bloody looking! I like how your ganache was so red!
I made this cake for a party. It was a big hit! Thanks for sharing your creativity.
I had trouble with the recipe though and had to improvise. I used Dunkin Hines Red Velvet cake mix – my original cake didn’t rise well. Then the cream cheese filling was really watery and lumpy. “What was I doing wrong?!” So I just used a good buttercream for the filling and frosting. I did chill the cake to made sure it was set before the final frosting and decorations. Thanks again!
Yes, I must not have been patient with the cream cheese. I also made two boxes of cake mix because I wanted my cake tall like yours. I’ll see if I can figure out how to post a picture.
made the cake to take to party at work tomorrow! cannot wait to taste it! thanks for sharing this recipe.
Hi Jeanne, thanks for letting me know about your cake, I’m glad you got to make it. Sorry about your cream cheese frosting, Sometimes you have to beat the cream cheese for a REALLY long time. I would love to see a pic of your cake if you have one!
If I did it correct, here is a link.
http://pin.it/ND_fQ_X
Jeanne, Wow I am really impressed, your cake looks awesome! Thanks for sharing, that made me happy
Hi Junebug, I am glad you got to use the recipe for the cake! I would love to see a pic of how it turned out!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209317253720575&set=a.1034198627447.2006857.1599897363&type=3&theater
I hope this works…
Somehow it didn’t work Junebug, I’m bummed I couldn’t see it.
I am going to be using this red ganache recipe on a buttercream frosting cake. I am making this the night before a party. Should this be refrigerated overnight? Or will this be OK at room temp for one day?
It will be ok in room temperature, or in the refrigerator. either one
Would this work on top of fondant?
hmmm, I have never tried to pour colored ganache over fondant. I think it should work though. Sorry I can’t be more helpful!
Do we allow the ganache to cool before applying to cake? Or apply right away?
no you apply it while it is still runny so it will drip down. But wait a little while so it is not too runny
Cassandra,
It needs to be pourable. So, no, I did not let mine cool.