April is Birthday month in my family which means there are plenty of genuine excuses to eat cake. I like experimenting with cake decorating, and this year I decided to make birthday cakes based on the favourite chocolate bar of the person celebrating.
First up was my brother-in-law Tab. Tab's favourite chocolate bar is Kit Kat, so I set out to make a very chocolate, two-layer cake. I most often use cake mixes when I bake a cake, as they are so quick and easy to prepare, and decorating is really where I want to spend my time.
For Tab's Kit Kat Cake, I used a Devil's Food Cake mix, Chocolate Fudge icing, and five Kit-Kat bars. I crushed half the bars and spread them between the cake layers, and I cut each of the remaining Kit Kat sticks in six and scattered the pieces over the top of the cake. The cake was extremely rich and I am proud to say I was the only one able to finish my entire piece. I can handle my chocolate!
For my brother Dave's cake, his original selection of chocolate bar was Eat More. I suggested he choose something a tad less disgusting (sorry Eat More lovers!) His next favourite choice was Crunchie Bar, which I thoroughly supported, and was happy to make.
For Dave's Crunchie Bar cake, I started with a yellow cake mix and added Golden Yellow gel food colouring to it for an extra golden colour. I covered it in Milk Chocolate icing, so that the cake looked like a Crunchie Bar - yellow on the inside and chocolate on the outside. I crushed four Crunchie bars, spreading half of them between the cake layers, and the other half was spread over the top of the cake. I definitely enjoyed the crunch of the sponge toffee mixed with the softness of the cake. I needed a full glass of water after I ate this cake - it was pretty loaded with sweetness.
Using a chocolate bar as a design for cake decoration is a simple and easy way to enhance any cake. I am definitely going to try more chocolate bar flavours...just not Eat More.
First up was my brother-in-law Tab. Tab's favourite chocolate bar is Kit Kat, so I set out to make a very chocolate, two-layer cake. I most often use cake mixes when I bake a cake, as they are so quick and easy to prepare, and decorating is really where I want to spend my time.
For Tab's Kit Kat Cake, I used a Devil's Food Cake mix, Chocolate Fudge icing, and five Kit-Kat bars. I crushed half the bars and spread them between the cake layers, and I cut each of the remaining Kit Kat sticks in six and scattered the pieces over the top of the cake. The cake was extremely rich and I am proud to say I was the only one able to finish my entire piece. I can handle my chocolate!
Kit Kat Bar Cake - it tasted as amazing as it looks!
For my brother Dave's cake, his original selection of chocolate bar was Eat More. I suggested he choose something a tad less disgusting (sorry Eat More lovers!) His next favourite choice was Crunchie Bar, which I thoroughly supported, and was happy to make.
For Dave's Crunchie Bar cake, I started with a yellow cake mix and added Golden Yellow gel food colouring to it for an extra golden colour. I covered it in Milk Chocolate icing, so that the cake looked like a Crunchie Bar - yellow on the inside and chocolate on the outside. I crushed four Crunchie bars, spreading half of them between the cake layers, and the other half was spread over the top of the cake. I definitely enjoyed the crunch of the sponge toffee mixed with the softness of the cake. I needed a full glass of water after I ate this cake - it was pretty loaded with sweetness.
Using a chocolate bar as a design for cake decoration is a simple and easy way to enhance any cake. I am definitely going to try more chocolate bar flavours...just not Eat More.
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1. I would like to humbly suggest that you begin experimenting with baking cakes from scratch. You know, just as a challenge. Not because I judge people who use cake mix or anything. I have sometimes used cake mix when making an elaborately decorated cake (aka a castle cake one time three years ago). But try from scratch. It is better.
ReplyDelete2. Never apologize to Eat More fans. While I don't judge the use of cake mixes, I do judge the existence of Eat More.
1. I will definitely try cake from scratch sometime. I know my mom has some recipes. I'll have to try vegan cake from scratch too!
ReplyDelete2. What is Eat More in the chocolate bar section??? It is not a chocolate bar.