Zombie Savory Mini-Bundt Cakes

Happy Halloween! If you are still looking for fun food ideas to make for your Halloween celebration. These Zombie Savory Mini-Bundt Cakes are an easy, fast and fun option. Ever since I made Mini Bundt Halloween Ghosts. I waited for an opportunity to use this idea to create another Halloween treat. Actually, there are a lot of flavors and decorating possibilities for working with this pan. However, I wanted to go with a savory option.

The savory cake recipe itself is one I adapted from Pete’s Savory Cake recipe. I scaled it way down with no add-ins. The result is a simple dense cake perfect for making these treats. However, feel free to throw in some chopped nuts, herbs, spices, shredded cheese, etc. Whatever you fancy.

Additionally, you will need a mini bundt cake pan, candy eyes, some well-drained sauerkraut, and a few sunflower seeds. Also red and black food coloring and two small paintbrushes.

Decorating Zombie Savory Mini-Bundt Cakes:

Once you bake the mini bundt cakes, trim off the bottoms so they sit flat. Use a bit of royal icing or frosting to affix the candy eyes to the cakes. Use the black food coloring to paint mouths on the cakes. The fun part is making different shapes to give cakes different expressions. I went mostly for miserable looking Zombie Savory Mini-Bundt Cakes. Then, randomly push the sunflower seeds into the mouths to create mouths that look like an urgent visit to the orthodontist is needed. The red food coloring is perfect to brush “‘bloody” streaks over the entire cake including the eyes.

Pile tufts of sauerkraut on top of each cake. This is also fun to create different hairdos. I also brushed the serving plate with red food coloring for additional creepiness.

This is my sad last Halloween post for the season. Be sure I’ll be back next year with a slew of other ghastly edible creations. Boo!

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Zombie Savory Mini-Bundt Cakes

Course Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword bundt cakes, Haloween Appetizers

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 14 minutes

Total Time 44 minutes

Servings 1 dozen

Author Lora Wiley-Lennartz

Ingredients

For the Cake:

• 1 +1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon  baking powder
• 1  teaspoon  salt
• 3  eggs
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 1/3 cup whole milk

For the decoration:

• 1/4 cup sauerkraut
• Candy eyes
• sunflower seeds
• black food coloring
• red food coloring

Instructions

Make the mini-bundt cakes:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
 Grease and flour a mini bundt pan.
2. In a separate bowl. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
3. Place the eggs, olive oil, and milk in a mixer and beat to combine.
4. Beat in the dry ingredients
5. Transfer the batter into the bundt cake pan. Fill each well a little over 1/2 full.
   
6. Place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes or until a knife inserted into the cakes comes out clean.
7. Remove from the oven. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
8. Remove the cakes from the pan and transfer to a baking rack.
9. Trim off the bottoms of each mini bundt cake to the cake sits evenly.
   
10. Let cool completely before decorating.

To Decorate:

1. Trim off the bottoms of each cake so they sit flat.
2. Use a bit of royal icing or frosting to affix the candy eyes to the cakes.
3. Paint mouths on the cakes using the black food coloring and a small paintbrush.
   
4. gently push the sunflower seeds into the mouths to create teeth.
5. Brush streaks of red food coloring all over the cakes, including the eyes.
6. Pile tufts of sauerkraut on top of each cake.
7. Plate and serve.

Like these Zombie Savory Mini-Bundt Cakes? Also, try some of these other quick and easy Halloween treat recipes: