Buttery caramel flavored moist bundt cake drizzled with homemade salted caramel sauce and dusted with Biscoff Cookie Crumbles. Two Biscoff madeleines with salted caramel buttercream teeth make the monster of this Star Wars Sarlacc Bundt Cake.
I have a little confession about my family. We’re a bunch of geeks. Geeks to the core. I’m a Disney fanatic sprinkled with a little Harry Potter and drizzled heavily with I Love Lucy. My husband is a Trekkie who’s obsessed with Star Wars all while being a loyal Battle Star Galactica fan. But geeks are awesome. So while October comes to a close, this Star Wars Sarlacc Bundt Cake is for you geeks!
So for all you non-geeks, a Sarlacc is a horrific plant-like omnivorous creature found across the galaxy. It’s got huge tentacles and a beak and was in the famous pit scene from Return of the Jedi. This is where Bobba Fett met his maker. This thing gave me the heebie jeebies the first time I saw Return of the Jedi, so this is my little tribute to him. I know the Sarlacc traditionally does not have teeth on his beak, but I just couldn’t resist. Teeth made of frosting is my new favorite thing.
Would this trigger PTSD for Luke? Maybe…But I could totally hear him say,
“But I don’t remember the Sarlacc ever having teeth…”
And all the Star Wars trolls nod and clap in agreement. Hey guys, just think of this Sarlacc as the suped up version with CGI teeth. I know, CGI is a sore subject. Either way, this guy is super delicious. You should make him now. Teeth or no teeth.
Star Wars Sarlacc Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Caramel Bundt Cake
- 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
Biscoff Madeleines
- 2 large room temperature eggs
- 2/3 cup light brown sugar
- 2 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup ground Biscoff Cookie Crumbs
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- pinch of cinnamon or more. your choice
- 8 tbsp butter melted and cooled (I used unsalted, but salted would work too)
Decoration
- 1 package of Biscoff Cookies 8oz.
- Your favorite salted caramel sauce
- Your favorite vanilla frosting
- Handful of raw slivered almonds
Instructions
Caramel Bundt Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 F and grease your bundt cake pan.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the four, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- With an electric mixer and paddle attachment, beat the soften butter with both sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time until each is well mixed. Make sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- Add vanilla and mix some more.
- On low, add the flour mixture alternating between the dry ingredients and the buttermilk. Start with the flour and end with the flour. Mix until just combined.
- Pour into bundt cake pan and bake for 35-45 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool in pan for about 20 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Biscoff Madeleines - Beak
- Start by setting oven to 375F.
- Lightly grease and flour your madeleine pan.
- In a food processor, blend package of Biscoff Cookies into crumbs. Set aside
- Beat eggs and sugar together until thick.
- Beat in vanilla and salt.
- Sift flour, Biscoff Cookie crumbs,cinnamon, and baking powder into bowl and fold together until mixed.
- Stream in melted butter while mixing on low.
- Spoon a tablespoon of batter into each cavity.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Be careful to not over bake.
- Allow to cool for a few minutes before removing.
- Make sure pan has cooled before baking the next batch.
Cookie Tentacles
- Pour some of the madeleine batter into a small ziplock bag and snip off the corner.
- Pipe tentacles on parchment paper or a greased cookie sheet. Don't make them too thick because the batter spreads as it bakes. One thin line should do.
- Bake at 375F until golden brown.
Assembly
- Once the cake has cooled, drizzle the entire cake with caramel sauce.
- Cover the cake with the Biscoff Cookie Crumbs.
- Using the raw almonds, create the spikes or teeth on the interior walls of the pit.
- Fill the pit with frosting and cover with the Biscoff Cookie Crumbs.
- Using a small piping tip (or bag with tip snipped off) create teeth along the outer edge of two madeleine cookies.
- Place inside the pit.
- Surround the beak with the cookie tentacles.
The caramel bundt cake is super moist and delicious so it really didn’t need a lot of frosting. I drizzled the entire cake with caramel sauce to make the Biscoff Cookie Crumbs stick. Then with almonds, I stuck them around the walls of the interior to create those spikes or teeth. I piped in some frosting to make the madeleine beak stay in place, and his tentacles were the madeleine batter baked on a cookie sheet. I piped teeth on the madeleines like I did for my Monster Strawberry Cupcakes.
I’m pretty new to cake decorating and I usually just “wing it”. If you’re a newbie like me, there are some great resources online to help you get started. A great site to check out is this cake decorating post by Creativiu. Go get you’re cake on!
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Perfect treat fro Halloween!
Thanks Catalina!
This is the best cake I’ve seen in a long time! Awesome idea with perfect execution!
Thank you Suzanne!
This was wonderful! Thank you for treating me today. 🙂
Awe, thanks Evan! I’m eating your chocolate tomorrow!
This is so clever! I am very impressed with your creativity…what a perfect cake for Halloween!
Thank you so much Annie!
I love bundt cakes , but this one is just incredible! Great and creative for Halloween! Pinning!
Thanks Mira 🙂
Thanks Mira!
This bundt cake looks amazing! You’re so creative, it is so cool!
Thank you so much Jess 🙂
Thanks Jess 🙂
Oh my goodness! This cake looks absolutely incredible. What a great idea! The teeth of the sarlacc are my favorite as well 🙂
Thank you Kathi! I love your blog so much and I’m a follower, so to see you pop over to mine makes me happy! 🙂
This is so cool! You are very talented!
Thanks Ryan!
Not only does this cake look like it taste amazing, but you did a fantastic job making the sarlacc come to life. It’s incredible.
Thank you so much Beth!
Haha, this is awesome! I am not a Star Wars person (ie, I’ve never seen one of the movies–don’t throw things at me!) but I totally appreciate the creativity and artistry behind this cake–and I appreciate the explanation you gave for dummies like me. 🙂 Happy Halloween!
Thank you so much Elizabeth 🙂 I wasn’t really into Star Wars until my husband came along. He transformed me into the geek I am today!
What a great looking cake!
I might just try to make this for my nephew’s birthday. He loves Star Wars.
Thanks Tina! I hope they like it!
So cool & looks delicious!
Thanks!
Kathleen THIS IS THE BEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!!!!! My husband was next to me when I saw the link for this and I just pointed to it, “check this out!!!” It was even better than I anticipated. Star Wars for life!!!
Karen! You crack me up 🙂 I like that you guys like Star Wars too. It was sooooo much fun to make!
Well, my husband wants this for his birthday, so I guess I’ll be trying it in January. Looks great!
Thanks Hilary! I hope it’s a hit 🙂
the star wars geek inside me is smiling right now. Awesome job.
Thanks so much!
I don’t have a Madeiline pan, is there something else I could use to get the same giant worm mouth effect? I was thinking of piping out some thicker oval pieces the same way as you made the tentacles.
Hey Caitlin. I actually suggest using a short bread cookie dough recipe to make the beaks instead. Here is one from Martha Stewart. If you piped the madeleine dough I think it would spread way too much on the cookie pan and not hold its shape. So when you’re piping it for the tentacles, be careful to pipe it very thinly because it will spread a good amount. Also if you don’t want to bake the beak pieces with shortbread dough, maybe buy some Milano sandwich cookies. They have the same shape. Let me know what you decide. I want to know how it turns out! You can tag it #yummycrumble in instagram so I can see it!
Just found this on Pinterest. I would say, with the teeth, that it reminds me more of Shai Hulud (the giant sand worms) in Dune.
“Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and the going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.” – Freman prayer to Shai Hulud
I might be a geek too. 🙂
Yes it totally does! 🙂
WOW! Your designs are AMAZING! You truly have a talent for creating beautiful treats. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Jessica!
Seriously????
I can’t even! Those are the best Star Wars Cakes ever!!! So impressed with your creativity and your photography skills. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much Kristie! I’m glad you enjoy them 🙂
Guess what!? I made this for our Star Wars laserdisk movie party and everyone absolutely loved it! The only thing is, people were afraid to eat it because it looked so good! Thanks so much for the inspiration, it was a huge hit at the party.
P.S : I didn’t have a madeline pan and cut spooned some madeline dough out on a cookie sheet, slightly under cooked it and cut it into the shape of a beak and it held up! Worked perfectly!
Yay! I’m so happy! This is one of my favorites 😊 did you post on Instagram? If you did, what’s your username? I would live to see it!