Skull Cake With Sugar Cookie Bones

This is the cake creation for our halloween party this year.  The rest of the treat table to be posted tomorrow!  This cake was a rich chocolate cake and the bones were sugar cookie, you can use any sugar cookie but mine is a basic vegan one.  The cake recipe is a modified from The Joy of Vegan Baking.  I added a bit more chocolate and a bit more baking soda for leavening agent. I purchased the wilton skull pan a couple of years ago and have gotten a lot of use out of it.  For the recipe I have done a very thick confectioners sugar mix that I painted on the skull three times.  Letting it dry between each application.  The red "blood" is a couple of things.  First the spray is wilton spray color.  The thicker "blood" is a mixture of food color confectioners sugar and a small amount of water.  It was a hit both delicious and scary! 

Ingredients:
1/2 cups unbleached flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup canola oil
1 tbs distilled white vinegar
1 cup cold water

Directions:
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes.  Your times may be a bit different depending on the depth of your pan!