11/20/2022 0 Comments Blog #8![]() This week I challenged myself to make a more difficult cake. Due to it being the season of cuddling up by the fire with blankets and hot chocolate, I decided to make a 100 % edible version of hot chocolate. The first thing I did was to look up methods on how to make the cup. I figured that this would the hardest part of the cake. As I looked on line, I felt the easiest idea would be to use a paper cup and melting chocolate. I melted the chocolate and spread it with a butter knife. After the cup was coated thickly with chocolate I put it in the freezer so that the chocolate would cool. When the chocolate was solid I cut open the paper cup and just ripped the paper off the chocolate. This method worked really, really well. I used Walmart brand white chocolate melting wafers and dyed it pink with target brand food gel. After the cup was successful I had a lot less worry about the final product of the cake. The cake part was very easy I just added frosting into crumbled up cake so that I could shape the cake to fit in the cup. Also, to cut some time I found a wide pan so that the batter was thinner than normal. This helped me save a lot more time and make less of a mess. I filled the chocolate cups up with cake to about 3/4th of the way so that I could save room for whipped cream. I sprayed the whipped cream on top of the cake and cup. After that to give the cake more detail I added chocolate chips, marshmallows, and caramel sauce on top. I wanted to go the extra mile and decided to make a cup with a marbled design. I used the same melting chocolate and the same brand of food dye. For this marbled look I wanted to go with purple. I though that going about this in layers would be the best idea. I started off with a very thin layer of light purple chocolate. This layer had several spots that were not covered. After I let that layer set in the fridge I added a dark purple layer and added that to the spots I left open. The last step was that I added a white layer so that any thin spots would be covered with white. This Idea worked very well and ended up being a really cute cup. Overall I feel very good about this cake and it might be my favorite one yet.
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