How to Make a Smash Cake

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Permalink Reply by Eileen S on June 17, 2010 at 11:32pm

I saw on Cake Boss where they used those plastic clamshell take-out containers, pour chocolate in them, made sure to get all the sides, pour out any excess and then put in the refrigerator. Once hardened, they cut away the plastic and had a cute little chocolate box.

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Permalink Reply by Jeanne on June 18, 2010 at 2:32am

You can use any mold you want really... just allow the two halves to set up firm and then stuff candy in one of the 1/2's and adhere the sides together.

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Permalink Reply by Gayle David on June 18, 2010 at 7:48am

Thanks Eileen. I've made a solid 3D shoe before. It was easy to stick the 2 solid parts together to make the 3D shoes. But I've tried making a hollow 3D shoe and had a lot of trouble fitting the 2 hollow chocolate parts together. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Eileen S said:

I saw on Cake Boss where they used those plastic clamshell take-out containers, pour chocolate in them, made sure to get all the sides, pour out any excess and then put in the refrigerator. Once hardened, they cut away the plastic and had a cute little chocolate box.

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Permalink Reply by Gayle David on June 18, 2010 at 7:49am

That's a great idea Jeanne! Thanks! Any suggestions on how to best adhere the 2 hollow sides together?

Jeanne said:

You can use any mold you want really... just allow the two halves to set up firm and then stuff candy in one of the 1/2's and adhere the sides together.

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Permalink Reply by Jeanne on June 18, 2010 at 7:57am

You can run a hot knife over the edge to melt the chocolate and stick them together, or you can pipe a small line of melted chocolate along the seam. When it dries you just scrape off the excess with a knife and your seam will go away.

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Gayle David said:

That's a great idea Jeanne! Thanks! Any suggestions on how to best adhere the 2 hollow sides together?

Jeanne said:

You can use any mold you want really... just allow the two halves to set up firm and then stuff candy in one of the 1/2's and adhere the sides together.

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Permalink Reply by Gayle David on June 18, 2010 at 8:20am

Thanks Jeanne. I've tried this before - I found it very hard using the hot knife to adhere the 2 hollow parts. LOL Maybe it's just practice makes perfect? Thanks for your reply!

Jeanne said:

You can run a hot knife over the edge to melt the chocolate and stick them together, or you can pipe a small line of melted chocolate along the seam. When it dries you just scrape off the excess with a knife and your seam will go away.

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Gayle David said:

That's a great idea Jeanne! Thanks! Any suggestions on how to best adhere the 2 hollow sides together?

Jeanne said:

You can use any mold you want really... just allow the two halves to set up firm and then stuff candy in one of the 1/2's and adhere the sides together.

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Permalink Reply by Melicia Wasserman on November 1, 2011 at 4:18am

The thing with the knife is that it sets quickly while you're still busy with the rest. Rather take a big metal roasting pan and warm it up, and rub the edge of the chocolate on it. Melts the whole edge simmultanious.

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