A themed cake for a Dr Who obsessed friend. A rather simplistic representation of a terrifying classic!
The Chocolate Dalek Cake
This started life as two 9inch square chocolate cakes, with a basic sponge recipe with the following ratios -
4 marg: 4 sugar: 2 egg: 3.5 SR flour: 0.5 cocoa powder
So, to start you need to form the base - this was made with a jigsaw of pieces: a semi circle, a square, two triangles and two rectangles, assembled on the tray.
Make up some chocolate flavoured butter cream icing and begin the plaster work!
Start with the "skirt" of the dalek:
Vertical(ish) strips for the skirt, horizontal for the head.
Position chocolate fingers on the skirt, and fill in the vertical sections with giant chocolate buttons.
I needed to break some of the biscuits to fill in some of the gaps...
Mmmm - look at all that chocolatey goodness!
I've even decorated the sides of this one. I'm nothing if not a stickler for details!
For the plunger part of the dalek I coated a silicon cup cake mould with several layers of melted chocolate, dip the case in the chocolate, or brush melted chocolate on to it. Allow to cool, and repeat at least 4 times until you have a nice thick coating.
This is roughly what it should look like!
Look... there are the markings from the bottom of the case! (I melted those out before handing the cake over!)
And if I may draw your attention to the top of the dalek...? Look little fruit pastille lights! Two orange fruit pastilles skewered onto a cocktail stick. Magic!
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