Monday, May 28, 2012

Chocolate Plasticine Cake


Through an unfortunate series of events there are no pictures of this cake when it was finished. But it at least gives an impression. It's all chocolate on the outside, chocolate plasticine for the sculpture. I know it's difficult to see here, but she's looking up. In case you're wondering...

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Chocolate Plasticine Cake



Here's a picture of one of this weekend's cakes... Vanilla sponge with dark chocolate ganache, all covered in chocolate. Figures made from my very own pure chocolate plasticine.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Chocolate Snail



This is a prototype of a chocolate snail.
It's linked to a project with the lovely Miss Cakehead and the equally lovely Natasha from Nevie-Pie Cakes.
Have a look at their work, you'll be amazed!

http://misscakehead.wordpress.com/
http://amelieshouse.blogspot.co.uk/




Saturday, May 05, 2012

Chocolate Plasticine

Since I don't like the more traditional recipes for modelling chocolate, I'm now on a quest to create my very own. It'll allow me to make more elaborate sculptures rather than going through the very time consuming moulding and casting stages. And it'll liberate me hopefully from the restrictive properties of liquid chocolate.
Traditional recipes call for anything from corn syrup to glycerine to paraffin. They either affect the taste too much or change the mouthfeel associated with chocolate, or are frankly inedible. And since it's my goal to make cakes that can be entirely eaten apart from the cake board, the latter is out of the question...

Skull


In progress this one. Sneak detail preview. You're looking at chocolate.

Brian

Chocolate sculpture. When posted on facebook he was promptly named Brian. Brian was made out of pure dark high quality chocolate with bits of white for his eyes and teeth and green coloured cocoa butter. Unfortunately he stayed out in the sun too long and has since lost quite a bit of his appeal.

Wedding Fair



Wedding Fair at the Addington Palace in Croydon on the 29th of January 2012. Cake dummies decorated with pure chocolate and coloured cocoa butter. The little birds were cast in a mould from a clay sculpture. Each cake would easily feed 50 people but could ofcourse be made bigger.
Special thanks to everyone who came to see us and to Lauren ofcourse; it was great fun.

Maya's Butterfly Cake


'Maya's turning five and loves butterflies. And we all love chocolate'.
Chocolate layer cake with dark ganache filling, a solid pure white chocolate 'five' with chocolate daisies and chocolate butterflies. The colours were achieved by mixing white tempered chocolate with coloured cocoa butter. Poor things had all been eaten before they got the chance to escape.