Kitty Litter Cake and Brains in a Cup Recipes

I wish I could do my whole Halloween party over again this weekend. Ok, well, maybe not because of all the prep but still, I’ve gotten so many new great food ideas I just want to host a Halloween buffets. Oh, there’s an idea…maybe Halloween night, after school, before Trick-or-Treating. Hum, something to mull over. I’ll definitely be making some bloodied worms, bloody eyeballs and maybe mice meatloaf’s the rest of this week.

As promised, here are the recipes for Kitty Litter Cake and Brains in a cup. Yum!

Kitty Litter Cake

1 Box spice cake mix

1 Box white cake mix

1 Box instant vanilla pudding

1 Container white sandwich cookies

Tootsie rolls in various sizes

Green and Blue food coloring

Bake the cake mixes according to the directions in any pan. Mix the vanilla pudding and chill. Once the cakes have cooled, crumble the cakes together into a large bowl, add the vanilla pudding and mix to combine.

It’s best if you go to the dollar store and buy a new kitty litter pan but a disposable pan will work in a pinch. The scoop is a must in my opinion, it sells the whole thing as a kitty litter pan, plus it really creeps people out to have to serve with it.

In a zip top bag, dump all the sandwich cookies and crush up. This is a great time to get out any buried aggression, not that I have any, just saying. Once they’re pretty pulverized, not into a powder but little chunks, start adding drops of the blue and green food coloring. I usually add 10 or so drops, spread around inside the bag, then reseal it and mix around. Keep adding 10 at a time until the mix is mostly colored. The goal is to get it to look like kitty litter so, some pieces will be darker than others and some will be the sandy color of the white cookies. Dump over the top of the cake spreading evenly.

Now comes the fun part. Unwrap the tootsie rolls, microwave one at a time for 10 seconds then let your imagination run. Twist them into turds, flatten them into piles of diarrhea or dice into little balls like rabbit poop. Use various sizes, combine them, put them next to each other etc. I sometimes mix in one of the green tootsie rolls with one of the brown ones because for some reason, every now and then, cats eat something that causes them to poop something semi-green.

Yum!

Brains in a Cup

2 Box White Cake Mix

2 can’s white frosting

2 cups grape, cherry or strawberry seedless jam

Food Coloring

Clear cocktail cups – disposable or real – or any other clear jar of your choice, jar’s would make a cool specimen looking brain.

Mix the cake mix according to the directions and pour in two 8x11 pans. Drop a few drops of red food coloring onto the surface and swirl a knife in the mix to unevenly distribute.

Bake, then cool.

In a squeeze bottle, heat the jam with 2 tbsp water for 30 seconds. Squeeze a dollop into the bottom of 8 cups.

In a bowl, combine both the white frostings and enough drops of red food coloring to make it pink. Then, scoop a big dollop out into a separate bowl and add two drops of all the food coloring colors. This should produce a black or brown bit of frosting. Mix this back into the pink to produce the delicious brain color.

Using a round cookie cutter slightly larger than the base of the cups, cut out 8 circles, place them on top of the jam dollop in the glasses and drizzle more jam around the edges and onto the top just for taste. Using the top of a spare cup, cut out 8 more circles from the other cake and set aside.

Using a piping bag loaded with your frosting and a #5 round tip, (Walmart, JoAnns or Michales all have these) pipe random swirls, squiggles and lines onto the side of the cup. It doesn’t have to be completely covered. Add in your second circle of cake and then cover it with more brain squiggles.

As the final touch, using a toothpick, drag a line down the center of the frosting then fill the line with a squeeze of your red jam.

Yum!