SARLACC CAKE

“Don’t worry.  No real bounty hunters were harmed during the making of this blog post.”

“Looking for just the right dessert to celebrate the new Han Solo movie?  Looking for just the right cake to punish your favorite bounty hunter?  Looking for just the right cake for a Star Wars themed birthday party (Here’s looking at you, Nathan Hanson)?

Well, we’ve got just the bundt cake recipe for you.  Turns out like a caramel flavored coffee cake that will make you want to stand up to Jabba the Hutt and make a run to Kessel.  Enjoy, because I’ve got a good feeling about this.”

Bundt Cake Ingredients
1 cup Butter
3/4 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Brown Sugar
3 Eggs
1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
3 cups Flour
1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Buttermilk

Madeline Ingredients
8 Tablespoon Butter
1/2 cup Biscoff Cookies
2 Eggs
2/3 cup Brown Sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Flour
1/4 teaspoon Baking Powder
Pinch of Cinnamon

Decorations
8 ounces of Biscoff Cookies
Jar of Caramel Sauce
Container of Vanilla Frosting

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour a bundt cake pan. Set aside.
Cream the butter, sugar, and brown sugar.
Mix in the eggs and vanilla extract. Set aside.
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Alternate mixing in the “Flour Mixture” and buttermilk.
Pour batter into prepared bundt cake pan.
Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Place pan onto wire rack and allow to cool for 20 minutes.
Turn upside down and remove cake. Set aside and allow to cool completely.

Increase oven temperature to 375 degrees.
Melt 8 Tablespoons of butter and set aside to cool.
Using a food processor, grind the Biscoff Cookies into crumbs.
Grease and flour a madeline pan. Set aside.
Mix together the eggs and brown sugar.
Mix in the vanilla extract and salt.
Mix in the flour, baking powder, and cinnamon.
Mix in the melted and cooled butter.
Set aside 1/4 cup of batter.
Place a Tablespoon of batter into each prepared madeline mold.
Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cool in pan for two minutes, before removing from pan.
Allow pan to cool. Grease and flour pan again, prior to next batch.
Set aside madelines.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Take remaining 1/4 cup of madeline batter and place in a plastic bag.
Cut a small hole in one corner of the plastic bag and pipe several thin lines of batter onto the parchment paper.
Watch closely and bake until golden brown.
Allow these “tentacles” to cool completely on the pan.

Using food processor, grind remaining 8 ounces of Biscoff Cookies into a fine crumbs. Set aside.
Heat caramel sauce in a microwave. Set aside.
Use frosting to make “teeth” on two madelines. Set aside.
Drizzle caramel sauce over cooled bundt cake.
Top with about 6 ounces of Biscoff Cookie crumbs.
Fill center of cake half full with frosting.
Cover frosting in center of cake with remaining Biscoff Cookie crumbs.
Form spikes around inner portion of cake using frosting.
Insert two decorated madelines to form the Sarlacc’s mouth.
Insert tentacles around mouth.
For fun, place a desperate Boba Fett into the Sarlacc’s mouth.
Enjoy!

Makes about 12 servings.

Revised Source: “Star Wars Sarlacc Bundt Cake” recipe on www.yummycrumble.com.