Wednesday 14 April 2010

Crispy Wedding Cakes - I kid you not!

This post was inspired by the researcher that I co-habit an office with on a Friday.  In disbelief at the idea of giant chocolate crispy cakes as a wedding cake I had to Google it and was then inspired to try it out!
This was my first attempt - with crispy cakes made of marshmallows which I will NEVER be attempting again as melting marshmallows was just not fun, nor was mixing them with the Rice Crispies... in the end I gave up.  My husband created the pink mound by just pressing them into the bowl they were mixed in and I *tried* to pretty it up with some mini marshmallows (not - entirely - successful).  However, it does taste ok and he has promised to take it for the delight of his colleagues...



This was the second attempt - which I think is much better!  I stuck to the extreme basic 'melt the chocolate, mix the crispies in' recipe and then pressed the mixture into a greased and lined cake tin.  I left it to set overnight and then turned it out onto a plate (on a doily of course!) and tied a ribbon around the middle.  I was quite pleased with it and am looking forward to having another try, but making one with more than one tier!  Pics will follow!

Something cooking in the cupcake-fest household...

The HUGE gape between cakes is the result of cupcake-fest having a little baking of her own going on - in the form of bun no.2 in the oven and so things have been a little distracted recently with a woeful lack of cake making!