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A chocolate mummy cake for your Halloween celebrations, frosted with white buttercream to look like bandages and two open Oreos and two brown M&M candies for eyes, is sitting on a dark table surrounded with a stack of white dessert plates and forks and some white cheesecloth and blue and white string decorations,

Chocolate Mummy Cake Recipe

This adorable Chocolate Mummy Cake features rich, moist chocolate cake with velvety vanilla buttercream frosting. A perfectly easy recipe to enjoy on Halloween that tastes delicious, too!
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Ingredients

For the cake:

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1½ teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

For the frosting:

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 3½ cups powdered sugar
  • 1-3 teaspoons milk or heavy cream
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch salt

For the garnish:

  • 1 Oreo Cookie
  • 2 brown M&Ms plain

Instructions

For the cake:

  • Heat oven to 350°F.
  • Grease and flour two 9" round baking pans.
  • Stir together sugar, flour, HERSHEY'S Cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl.
  • Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes.
  • Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin).
  • Pour batter into prepared pans.
  • Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
  • Cool 10 minutes.
  • Remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

For the frosting and assembling:

  • In the bowl of a stand mixer mix the butter and the powdered sugar, beat until blended, then add salt, mix.
  • Add milk and vanilla and beat until smooth and creamy, about another 3-5 minutes.
  • Once cake is completely cooled place one layer on a plate or a round cake board, spread with some of the white butter cream.
  • Add the second layer of cake.
  • Then frost the entire cake with a very thin layer of frosting.
  • Place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
  • In the meantime, place a flat decorating tip (if you do not have a flat tip the one that makes rose petals is fine too) inside a cake decorating bag and then fill with frosting.
  • Cut off the tip of the bag.
  • Now make "bandages" with the frosting. I went around the cake and then did the top. The good news is that it's frosting, if you do not like how it looks scrape it off and start again.
  • Once you have your bandages, add the cookies and the brown M&Ms for the eyes.
  • Then slice and enjoy!

Notes

Note: I used 6" cake pans and I used 3 layers and froze the leftover cake for another day. 
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate mummy cake with buttercream, mummy cake