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    Home › Recipes › Brain Cake

    Brain Cake

    A cake to blow your mind!

    This cake could be the most delicious science project ever. The inside of the brain is a deep red velvet cake, iced lightly with Italian Meringue buttercream, and topped with brain tissue fondant patterns. Its amazing what a little raspberry jam can do. This human brain looks fresh from a skull! 

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    Baking the Cake:

    • 4lb portion of Yos Deep Red Velvet Cake

    Icing the Cake:

    • 1 x recipe Italian Meringue Buttercream
    • Simple syrup

    Decorating the Cake:

    • 31/2lbs Satin Ice White Fondant 
    • Burgundy Icing Colour
    • Golden Yellow Icing Colour
    • Black Icing Colour
    • Seedless Raspberry jam
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    Ruler Add to Cart - $12.99
    Sculpting tool Add to Cart - $64.99
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    Simple Syrup Squeeze Bottle Add to Cart - $24.99

    Prepare Red Velvet Cake

    Prepare your red velvet batter and pour into prepared pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 1hr and 40 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out completely clean. Let cool completely in their pans. 


    Prepare Buttercream and Simple Syrup

    Prepare the Italian Meringue Buttercream & Simple Syrup. Set aside. 


    Carve Cakes

    Using a serrated knife, carve your cake into a rounded brain shape. Carve small slivers at a time. Carve out a dividing line in the center of the brain where the hemispheres would be divided. Repeat the same process horizontally along the back of the brain.  


    Crumb Coat and Chill

    Soak with simple syrup, crumb coat, and chill in the fridge. Then apply another thin layer of buttercream to really get the fondant to stick. 


    Create Brain Pattern

    Use coloured fondant rolled into tubes to create the wavy pattern of the human brain, approximately 1cm in diameter. Use your paring knife, or a scalpel, to trim your fondant tubes and fit them in place.


    Add Definition

    Leave definition between the two hemispheres of your brain. I placed a small ruler in the crevasse to help guide my fondant tubes.


    Sculpt Cerebellum

    Use the remaining fondant to sculpt the cerebellum. Lay your cerebellum onto your cake board or stand first. Then rest your red velvet brain cake on top. 


    Add Details

    Use a sculpting tool to further indent the corners and curves in your brain wave pattern. 


    Paint on Blood

    Stir any lumps out of your seedless raspberry jam with your brush. Then paint the jam onto your brain cake. 


    Congratulations!

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