Pumpkin Cake for Halloween

Prepare the ingredients for the biscuit.

Break the eggs into a bowl and add sugar.

Beat until fluffy.

Pour milk and vegetable oil into the egg mixture.

Mix well with a whisk.

Add flour and baking powder and mix until smooth.

Then add the chocolate chips and mix well again.

Divide the resulting dough evenly into 2 pans and bake the cakes at 170 degrees for 40 minutes.

Cool the finished sponge cake completely in the pan, then stretch it out, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.

After cooling, divide each sponge cake into 3 parts. You should have 6 identical layers.

Let's prepare the ganache for the cream. It's best to do this ahead of time. Bring the heavy cream to a boil and pour it over the white chocolate. Let it sit for a couple of minutes, then whisk until smooth.

Cover with cling film and put in the refrigerator, preferably overnight.

Prepare the ingredients for the cream.

Place cream cheese and peanut butter in a deep bowl.

Mix the ingredients well and add the cooled ganache to them.

Beat the mixture at low speed with a mixer until smooth.

The cream is ready.

Let's begin assembling the cake. Carefully coat each layer with cream and sprinkle grated chocolate on top.

Wrap the cake in acetate film or parchment, press it into a ring and put it in the refrigerator.

Prepare the ganache to smooth out the cake. Melt the dark chocolate in the microwave or over a double boiler, add the butter, and stir until smooth.

Then cover with cling film in contact and leave to cool.

We take the cake out of the ring.

Using a knife, we give it the shape of a round pumpkin.

Smooth the surface of the cake with the cooled ganache using a spatula, acetate film or a knife.

We put the cake in the refrigerator to let the ganache cool.

Meanwhile, roll out the orange mastic to 5 mm and cover the cake with it.

We smooth it out well and cut off the excess.

Using special tools (stacks), we create stripes on our pumpkin.

If you don't have stacks, you can try replacing them with straws, toothpicks, or other similar improvised means.

We take food colorings: brown, flesh-colored, orange.

Lightly tint the pumpkin.

We make the stalk from brown mastic.

And we also tint it with food coloring.

Roll out the black mastic and cut out a mouth from it.

Then the eyes of the Halloween pumpkin.

We attach the fondant decorations to the pumpkin. We secure the stem with a long skewer.

We glue the mouth and eyes with confectionery glue.

The original, beautiful and extremely delicious Pumpkin cake for Halloween is ready.