So, Zeke, as he does from time to time said "I have an idea!" This exclamation is usually followed by a request for art and craft, or a walk to the bakery or milk bar. This time it was "Let's make a winter cake!" Well, what is a winter cake you ask? It turns out he had nothing firmer in mind than a winter cake, although after some questioning we determined it was chocolate. Anyone who knows me knows that I love decorating cakes, although far from a professional finish by any means, I really enjoy coming up with creative ideas to get different effects, themes etc. So, after some quick thinking, and a trip to the shops, our cake ended up with:
A round chocolate cake, layered with cream. (It was kind of based on
this recipe my go-to for chocolate cake but done by eye)
"Snow" Icing - butter cream with an egg white whipped in for fluffiness.
Marshmallow Snowmen - assembled with Royal Icing, features added with icing gel in tubes and a hat made from squares of Rolo slab chocolate. Ended up needing half a skewer to get them to stand up.
"Frozen" Jelly Lake - light blue jelly (I diluted for a better colour and added more gelatine to set) set thinly and a slab put into the icing. Sprinkled with some extra jelly crystals for some frozen sparkle.
Chocolate trees - Flake trunks with pieces of Curly Wurly 'glued' with melted chocolate. Messy and time consuming to make! Look amazing though :)
Fresh fallen snow - dessicated coconut and jelly crystals sprinkled over to finish.
Of course, onto pictures! I'm going to apologise now for the weird layout!
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| Mixing with the egg beaters - he thinks the electric is too noisy! |
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| Too much like hard work - electric it is! |
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| Sifting the flour vigorously |
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| Stirring again |
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| Tasting to see if it's chocolatey enough. |
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| Building Snowmen |
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| Into the fridge to set. |
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| Painting on some eyes and a mouth |
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| And a 'carrot' nose |
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| Snowmen all finished :) |
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| Layering cream onto the cake |
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| Icing and a piece of jelly for the pond |
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| Other decorations added |
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| You can see the jelly sparkle here |
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| A tree and some snowmen! |
Looks awesome! nomnomnom.
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