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To make the Remy Cake you’ll need
The 3D cake Template
Double amount of my Vanilla Buttercream Recipe
600g (21.16 ounces) chocolate for the spoon (in case you are utilizing actual chocolate ensure you mood it)
a model new comb for making the spoon
750g (26.46 ounces) white fondant for the hat, eyes and tooth
750g (26.46 ounces) white fondant colored bluey, gray for the physique (blue and black gel meals colouring)
500g (17.64 ounces) modelling chocolate colored pinky apricot for the tail, nostril and fingers. I used this for the ears too however I counsel making them out of fondant as an alternative in order that they maintain their form with out having to be caught to the hat.
20g (0.71 ounces) black fondant for the eyes
20 g (0.71 ounces) white fondant colored brown for the eyes
Sq. wood cake board 25.5cm (10.04 inches) with 1cm (0.39 inches) wood cubes for toes. You want toes to permit room for the bolt underneath the board. Cowl in foil
30cm (11.81 inches) threaded metallic assist rod with 8 bolts and three washers.
And the components for the chocolate cake and ganache, recipes beneath.
Chocolate Cake:
450g (15.87 ounces) of 70% cocoa darkish chocolate
710g (25.04 ounces) or 3 cups margarine
18 eggs
5 cups or 1090g (38.45 ounces) caster (tremendous high-quality) sugar
2 3/4 cups or 450g (15.87 ounces) plain flour (use GF flour if coeliac, this recipe has been examined with gluten free flour and works effectively)
70g (2.47 ounces) or 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
3 tsp baking powder
Preheat the oven to 180C (356 levels Fahrenheit). Place chocolate and margarine right into a bowl.
Soften the chocolate and butter within the microwave (1 minute, stir, 30 seconds, stir, 30 sec, stir…).
Whisk within the sugar and eggs into the chocolate combination.
Sift flour, cocoa powder and baking powder collectively and blend into cake combination till simply mixed.
Pour into 3 lined baking trays, my cake tins are 38cm (14.96 inches) x 25.4cm (10 inches).
Bake for quarter-hour. Insert a knife into the centre, to test whether it is finished, whether it is prepared it can come out clear.
1. Print and minimize out the template
2. Make the cake board and helps, high assist have to be comprised of wooden for this cake.
3. Make the ears and eyes from fondant. These may be finished as much as a month forward.
4. Make ganache and go away to chill at room temperature
5. Bake your truffles and go away to chill utterly
6. Make your buttercream.
7. Minimize out the cake layers and stack up with the helps. Every assist ought to have a bolt, a washer, the assist (normally comprised of stiff carboard lined in foil), and high with one other bolt to carry it firmly in place.
8. Utilizing the template minimize to form from the again angle and from the aspect. Then hand carve a tiny bit off between Remy’s eyes and on the nook edges of the physique and face to spherical them out.
9. Cowl the entire thing in buttercream and easy it out utilizing a sheet of acetate curved round one aspect at a time. Fondant doesn’t conceal errors within the buttercream, moderately it reveals them up, so take your time. When you’re proud of it refrigerate for a number of hours.
10. Cowl the cake in fondant as proven within the video, cowl it with a light-weight spray of cooking oil and plastic meals wrap, to maintain it moist, till you might be prepared so as to add fur texture to that part.
11. Add the fondant particulars
12. Make the spoon out of chocolate as proven within the video.
13. Make the whiskers, use tremendous high-quality spaghetti and dip simply the ends into sizzling water to permit them to twist barely.
14. Take a photograph after which take pleasure in.
Ganache Recipe
360g (12.7 ounces) milk chocolate (any model that has cocoa butter because the ingredient, not vegetable fats)
130mL (4.4 fluid ounces) cream (30% fats)
Break up the chocolate and place it right into a bowl with the cream.
Microwave for 1 minute, stir, 30 seconds, stir with a whisk, 30 seconds stir… till melted. Cowl the bowl with plastic wrap and go away it on the counter to chill. As soon as cooled whip with electrical mixers. Notice whether it is too stiff to unfold take a spoonful of ganache and, in a separate, bowl microwave for 15 seconds. Add this small quantity of warmed ganache again in with the remainder of the ganache.
Pumpkin Cake Recipe
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110g (3.88 ounces) margarine, melted
150g (5.29 ounces) brown sugar
2 eggs
plus 2 further egg yolks
370g (13.05 ounces) butternut pumpkin, grated.
80g (2.82 ounces) bitter cream
100g (3.53 ounces) walnuts
250 g (8.82 ounces) plain flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking powder
Preheat the oven to 180C (356 levels Fahrenheit). Place the margarine, sugar, sugar, eggs, yolks, pumpkin and bitter cream right into a bowl and blend effectively. Add the flour, spices and baking powder and stir till simply mixed. Pour right into a lined loaf tin and bake for 70 minutes or till a knife inserted into the middle comes out clear.
Finest sliced and served sizzling. This pumpkin cake is scrumptious.
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