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Host of Ghosts

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Host of Ghosts

Host of Ghosts

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Equipment

  • - Electric Mixer: Essential for combining ingredients thoroughly, perfect for making bat-shaped desserts or anything requiring creaming butter and sugar efficiently.

  • - Silicone Baking Mats: Versatile tools that can be used in various recipes including those involving baked dishes, like a themed ghost dinner.

  • - High-Sided Collapsible Strainer: Useful for making fruit-based desserts or reducing sauces and soups without losing solids during the straining process.

  • - Kitchen Shears: Great for cutting herbs, meat, or even intricate shapes in preparation for decorative ghostly presentations.

  • - Silicone Food Scrap Container: Ideal for keeping kitchen clean while cooking up themed dishes by separating and disposing of scraps easily.

  • - Digital Kitchen Thermometer: Essential for checking temperatures precisely in recipes that require exact temperature control, like custards or certain desserts.

  • - Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls (Set): A versatile tool used across various cooking and baking tasks, perfect for assembling ingredients before mixing them thoroughly.

  • - Cutting Board with Adhesive Silicone Sheets: Offers a non-slip surface while cutting or preparing dishes that may involve handling slippery items like fruits or vegetables for ghostly appearances.

  • - Food Processor (with Slicing Discs): Useful for making smooth purees, which can be applied in recipes requiring a smoother texture, perhaps for dipping sauces or desserts.

  • - Digital Meat Thermometer: Similar utility as the thermometer above but more specific to ensuring meats are cooked perfectly, important if any of your dishes require cooking meat thoroughly.

  • - Immersion Blender (with Squeeze Handle): Offers ease in pureeing or emulsifying ingredients without transferring them, useful for thick soups, dips, or even preparing smooth sauces with a ghostly twist.

Ingredients

  • One purchased 9-inch angel food cake

  • 2 recipes Seven Minute Frosting , at room temperature

  • Small sugar candy eyes, 2 for each ghost

  • 10-inch cake plate, for serving

  • Small offset spatula

  • Disposable decorating bag

  • Assorted eggcups and salt wells, for serving

Instructions

1

Instruction 1

Place the cake on the cake plate. Reserve 1 cup of frosting to make additional ghost figures. Using an offset spatula, fill the hole in the center of the cake with frosting and then spread frosting over the top and sides in a wavy pattern.
2

Instruction 2

Add the reserved frosting to the decorating bag; snip off the tip of the bag to create a 1/8- to 1/4-inch opening.
3

Instruction 3

Referring to the photo, pipe as many ghosts as you like onto and around the cake and into the eggcups. For each, apply pressure to squeeze out some frosting for a base, then lift the bag slowly, decreasing the pressure until the ghost is the desired size; stop the pressure and lift off the bag. Add 2 candy eyes to each ghost.
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