Roll out chocolate icing?

Alleycat

Hi all,

Thought I would pick your brains on this one as I don't have a clue!

I am making my dd's 2nd birthday cake in a week or so and want to do this:-



I've done cake designs before using the usual rollout icing and marzipan but want to use white and milk chocolate as quite a few people (OH included) don't like the other types as they are a bit too rich. However.....I have no idea if there is any way of either buying/making some sort of roll out chocolate icing. If not, can anyone suggest a good way of doing this design?

Help!!!

lauranurse

U could knead cocoa powder into normal fondant icing to make a less rich milk chocolate roll out icing. As for white chocolate, you can buy white hot chocolate powder and mix this in? Worth a try! Maybe make a little bit forst to see what it is like!

The cake is lovely btw, good luck!

crystaltipps

you can buy ready roll.
I have done a few cakes like this before. Trace the image on greaseproof paper. Then gently pinprick the design onto the icing thru the paper - dont go in to hard - just marking it for guide lines. Then get some food colourings and a decent modelling paintbrush and paint iton. don't use too much colouring on the brush at once.
I did some pirhana (spelling?) once, as she requested some for her bday and it is still my daughters favourite bday cake, 6 years later!

crystaltipps

by the way - dont wory if it isn't a perfect photo finish replica. If it comes out looking like the lovely aristocat and your daughter recognises it as such, then she will love it!

Alleycat

crystaltipps wrote:

you can buy ready roll.
I have done a few cakes like this before. Trace the image on greaseproof paper. Then gently pinprick the design onto the icing thru the paper - dont go in to hard - just marking it for guide lines. Then get some food colourings and a decent modelling paintbrush and paint iton. don't use too much colouring on the brush at once.
I did some pirhana (spelling?) once, as she requested some for her bday and it is still my daughters favourite bday cake, 6 years later!

Ooh, you have inspired me! I think this is the way I am going to do it. I was having nightmares thinking about how to do this design using chocolate icing. I'm really excited now, I just need to blow up and photocopy the picture then I can trace it out. I can write her name as well too!

crystaltipps

Cool, you could post a piccie of the result! would love to see. :-)

Alleycat

crystaltipps wrote:

Cool, you could post a piccie of the result! would love to see. :-)

Only if its not too rubbish!! The one I made for her first birthday was really gooey chocolatey, yum! With bees, butterflys and flowers made with those little tubes of coloured icing and smarties!

crystaltipps

another good idea for a great bday cake (if u are pushed for time) that was a big hit (this is more for any other bday cake enthusiasts) is choose a piece of artwork that your child has done at school - pref with loads of colour! Then take it to Asda and have them scan it onto a photo cake (they are a tenner but enough for a kids party and cheaper than the bakers!) To finish it off, get some candles that look like crayons (can't remember where i got them from but might also have been asda). My daughter did about van gogh when she was 8 - did a great copy of sunflowers and was most impressed with the cake which i surprised her with! xxx

lauranurse

You sound really talented, it should look great!

Alleycat

Thanks Laura!

crystaltipps, that sounds really good. My dd's 'artwork' is a bit rough and ready at the moment, but when she is older that would be a good one to remember.

kittiwoz

Why does it have to be roll out icing? If you melted white chocolate with a bit of butter over a basin of boiling water and poured it over the cake it would dry hard enough to paint onto with food colouring. Or you could ice the cake with buttercream or ganache and just pour melted white chocolate onto a sheet of greaseproof paper to get a flat disc that you could cut to shape with a hot knife, decorate and stick on top.