Very New to this - Please Help!!
Hi All
I'm doing my first 'proper' cake in a few weeks time, for my sister's 5-year anniversary, and I'd like some feedback if possible. The plan is as follows:
A really rich, amazing chocolate cake (this is the easy part for me!), with a cappucino ganache filling (whipped coffee-flavoured white chocolate ganache. Have made it, so I know it works - but I haven't put it into a cake yet.) I want to do a (dark - about 60%) chocolate collar around the outside (done that once before), and iced with more cappucino ganache, only not whipped this time. Decorated with chocolate roses.
I know it's an awful lot of chocolate but my brother-in-law is a total chocaholic. It needs to feed about 30-35 people, about 5 of which are children.
What I would like to do on the chocolate collar is a sort of lacy pattern in white chocolate on the parchment paper, let it set (will put it in the fridge so it's really firm before I do the rest), and then put the dark chocolate on to do the rest of the collar. I hope I'm making sense but I have a feeling that I'm being particularly incoherent today.
Anyway, I would really appreciate any advice/thoughts/impressions or anything else.
Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on
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Melissa - this all sounds completely divine! I'd eat it in a heartbeat. Sounds to me like you have it all worked out. Very brave too, if I may say so, I would be terrified of trying the chocolate collar thing, but I don't see why what you are saying shouldn't work. I would think you won't want to have the dark chocolate too hot before you pour it onto you white lacy pattern though, or it will melt into it?
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Permalink Reply by Melissa Muller on
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Katy - thank you so much for the reply! I hope it tastes as good as my mind is thinking it should...
I was thinking the difficult part would be getting the chocolate not too hot when I pour it on... was thinking of having two on the go at the same time so that if one doesn't work I have a backup!
A question - do you think I should cover the cake with buttercream first, then do the chocolate collar, then put ganache on the top, or do you think I could get away with just ganache over the whole cake followed by the chocolate collar?
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eek - getting a bit out of my league here Melissa lol! I've done a bit of research and it would seem you can do it either way. The suggestion seems to be that if you buttercream first, then you can either use 2 coats of ganache (one thinnish pouring consistency and one thicker to cover properly). Or one thick coat but let it cool to the consistency of very very thick heavy cream.
Oh and having a back is ALWAYS a good plan when you haven't tried something before!
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oh wow - thanks so much for the info! I'll go do some research now as well... Google is my friend :)
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Hi - thought you might like to see the finished product:
I ended up doing the chocolate collar first, then letting it set completely, then doing a separate 'collar' of the white chocolate. It worked well!
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Permalink Reply by faith brandstetter on
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very nice
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Permalink Reply by Joann Gottermeyer on
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wonderful!
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Thank you so much everyone for the lovely comments! I'm very proud of it actually - I know I have a lot to learn still but I think it wasn't bad for my first ever!
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