...Sat on a cake!
Ever the procrastinators, avoiding university work at all
costs…my housemate Kate and I decided to create a wondrous cake for no reason
at all.
Why not give it a go yourself? Here’s what you’ll need (If
you don’t want to make it…1. You’re weird and 2. It’s probably best to skip
this part)
Cake ingredients – You can make whatever you like, we went
for a Victoria sponge with pink buttercream and it went down a treat. A really
easy recipe to remember goes like this… 4oz Butter + 4oz Caster Sugar + 4oz
Self Raising Flour + 2 eggs (+ Vanilla Essence). If you want to make a bigger
cake, all you do is double all of the ingredients. EASY. For the butter icing
just keep adding icing sugar and butter until it’s to your taste and add a bit
colour to spice things up. Wild thing.
Piggy’s – Whilst the cake is cooking, it’s time to make your
little piggy’s!! You’ll need some pink marzipan (we mixed red food colouring
with white marzipan), then get creative!! By the time you’re finished with them
you’ll have man-handled them so much, I’d recommend not eating them… plus there’s
no way we could have eaten Sal and Gordz!!
Chocolate fondant icing – Next, heat 250ml of double cream and when it’s just about to boil add 400g of milk chocolate cubes. Now care for this as if it were your baby, keep slowly stirring it for a good 30 minutes in order for it to thicken up. We cradled ours and gave it a gentle stir whilst watching Broadchurch (Brilliant program!!). Rather therapeutic in fact.
Chocolate fondant icing – Next, heat 250ml of double cream and when it’s just about to boil add 400g of milk chocolate cubes. Now care for this as if it were your baby, keep slowly stirring it for a good 30 minutes in order for it to thicken up. We cradled ours and gave it a gentle stir whilst watching Broadchurch (Brilliant program!!). Rather therapeutic in fact.
Kit Kat – Once the chocolate is slightly thicker than
custard, dip one side of a KitKat into it and place on the side of the cake,
keep going until the entire sides of the cake our covered. Then it’s time to pour the rest
of the chocolate onto the cake. We went for a casual approach and let it run
down the edges of the cake, filling in any gaps between the Kit Kats.
Finishing touches – Now it’s time to add a ribbon and pop
your little pigs into their new home…and… TADA it’s done!
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| YUM!! |
Now I don’t know if you can fall in love with a cake, but I
think I have. It gave me and Kate great excitement and I even considered it
bringing it into my room to sleep as I couldn’t bare to leave it! AND our
social networking sites have never seen so much action (Slight exaggeration). Buzzing!
We’ve even had interest from a local Deli who want us to
provide a quote for them. Oh the adventures of Melissa and Kate.
Enjoy! x
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