Bat Cut-Up Cake
Two round cakes make an adorable Halloween bat!
Servings: 16
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 box cake mix
- 1 box instant pudding
- 4 eggs
- ⅓ cup melted butter
- 1 cup milk
Buttercream
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 cup butter or margarine
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 8 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup cocoa
- 2-4 Tbsp water or milk
Instructions
Cake
- Beat together all ingredients.
- Pour half the batter into a greased and floured 8 inch round pan. Bake for 30 minutes at 350°.
- Repeat with other half of batter.
- Cool and remove from pan. Cut cakes and assemble them according to template instructions.
Buttercream Frosting
- Beat together butter, vanilla, and Crisco until thoroughly combined.
- Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. If you want to decorate with white, save some of the frosting out here.
- Add cocoa and mix until well combined.
- Add water or milk until desired consistency is reached.
- Frost cake.
Notes
I used Hershey's special dark cocoa to get that really dark brown color.
If you want to decorate the face like I did, save a bit of the frosting out before you add in the cocoa.
If you want to decorate the face like I did, save a bit of the frosting out before you add in the cocoa.