Serve a frighteningly good brownie on the scariest day of the year. This will go straight to the homes of both young and old.
You will need:
Cake base
- 120 g chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 185 g dairy butter
- 30 g cocoa
- 200 g sugar
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 3 large room temperature eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla paste or vanilla sugar with real vanilla
- 100 g wheat flour
- 1 pinch of flake salt
- 170 g chocolate drops or coarsely chopped chocolate
- 70 g walnuts
Cream cheese for ghosts:
- 100 g room temperature dairy butter
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or vanilla sugar with real vanilla
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- 70-100 g icing sugar
- 200 g natural cream cheese (thawed cream cheese)
Decoration
100 g dark chocolate
How to do it:
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees above and below.
- Melt the butter and remove from the heat. Add the chocolate and leave for a minute or two. Stir until the chocolate has melted. Whisk in the cocoa and sugar. Beat in one egg at a time and finally stir in the vanilla, salt and flour. Coarsely chop the walnuts and fold in together with the chocolate drops.
- Pour into a small greased long pan and bake in the middle of the oven for 30-35 minutes. The cake should not be completely cooked through. Test with a skewer or toothpick. There should be some moist crumbs on the stick when it is finished.
- Cool completely before putting on the cream cheese, otherwise the cream will melt.
- Whisk the butter, vanilla, orange juice and 70 g caster sugar into a fluffy cream. Finally, whip in the cream cheese. If you want a sweeter cream, you can whip in a little more icing sugar.
- Put the cream cheese in a piping bag with a round tip and spray ghosts on the brownie. Start by making a small round body and finish with a tip like a tail. It can be worthwhile to practice a little on a plate before you decorate the brownie. If the cream is too thick, you can whip in more orange juice.
- Melt the chocolate over a water bath and transfer to a small piping bag or make a creamer's house out of food paper. Spray little shocked mouths on the ghosts, and use the chocolate or ready sprinkles for eyes.