Cut a 9x13-inch sheet cake into pieces to create this bat cake for Halloween. Then decorate by piping frosting through a star tip.
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
cake, halloween desserts
Servings: 12
Calories: 280kcal
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
19X13-inch sheet cake
2 ½cupschocolate frosting,colored black
½cupwhite frosting
Instructions
Cut the rectangle cake in half widthwise.
Set one rectangle in the center of a cake board or serving platter. This is the bat's body.
Cut the other rectangle cake in half diagonally.
Cut about 2 ½ inches off the narrower tip of each of those cakes to create two ears.
Cut the larger cake pieces into wings.
Use black frosting to attach the two wings and two ears to the rectangle cake.You'll have to flip one of the wings upside down before setting it on the cake board.
Pipe big white eyes with black pupils and two fangs onto the cake then pipe black stars over the rest of the cake.
Pipe a mouth over the top edge of the fangs.
Pipe two feet using black frosting.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
To pipe stars onto the cake hold your tip just above the cake. Gently squeeze on the pastry bag allowing a star to form on the cake. Stop squeezing and pull the bag away from the cake. The frosting will form a peak and break off in a nice star shape.
The ends of the wings are very thin. It will be easiest to pipe frosting at the base and up the sides of the wings before your pipe frosting on top of the wings.
To make the mouth show up a bit better, you can blend a bit of white and black frosting together to make gray frosting and use that to pipe on the mouth. The black mouth is easy to see on the cake when you are looking at it in person but it gets lost in the pictures and video.