There was exactly one webpage about Bleedy Cake when I tried this recipe for Halloween 2003. Today there is still exactly one webpage, which confounds me. Bleedy cake is an amazing thing, why aren’t more people interested in cake that bleeds? Please send us pictures of your bleedy cake so we can show the Interweb how lovely it really is : )
2007 UPDATE: Behold, pictures and info on a bleeding heart cake!
Anyway, you can use essentially whatever white cake recipe you want. Bake the cake as usual, but hollow out the bottom layer (oops I did the top!) about 1+” and frost it. This will be the barrier that forms the bloody lake inside. Then fill the frosted hole with raspberry syrup (I used Knott’s pancake syrup), frost the underside of the top layer of cake and plop that on top of the syrup lake.
This is REALLY sweet, so I didn’t frost the sides, and if you’re interested in presentation (and I know you are), start brainstorming ways to decorate without using more sugar. (The real bummer about this cake is all the white needed to make the “blood” stand out. White flour for the cake and white sugar for the frosting. Yeesh.) The syrup tends to run out pretty quickly and then soak into the cake, so try to serve and devour this shortly after slicing into it.
I am having a Halloween wedding and I plan on making my own cake. I am using this cake idea for my wedding cake. I can’t wait to see how well it turns out. When I make it I will post pics. Thank you for the great idea. I didn’t want a truely gross looking wedding cake but this idea is just enough for a simple Halloween wedding cake.
on August 14th, 2010
I was just dorking around the internet, looking at a blog called cakewrecks, when I happened across your site. As an aficionado of gory cakes, of course I clicked through to the webpage that you reference – imagine my delight to find that it linked to the website of my good friend Sara, describing my bleeding heart cake. I was further amused to see that your 2007 update in fact links to my own website, which, in fact, is a description of the exact same cake that Sara was talking about on her website. So evidently you and I are still the only folks out here in the inter-world who have bothered to post our bleeding cakes. I would have thought that more people would be making it, too, especially considering that several people have emailed me links to their versions of my thoracic cavity cake, which is a heck of a lot harder to do than the bleeding heart cake.
on August 7th, 2008