Timey-wimey cake

[sabotabby]

So who wants to see Doctor Who themed baking? I mean, most of you, obviously.

Look what lienne, cupric_acetate, and I baked.


Isn't it magnificent?



We were going to attempt to write "cake" in Gallifreyan on the top but we settled for shiny balls.




Oh, it was actually tasty, by the way. Gingerbread cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting.




Alas, eating the chocolates themselves presents a bit of a challenge.


Bonus non-timey-wimey cupcake.


So, yeah. That happened. I'm looking for a solution to make TARDIS and Dalek chocolates that aren't quite so dense for the Inevitable 50th Anniversary Theme Party, so any (easy) ideas would be most welcome. At the moment we're thinking cake interior. Though the other option is Jelly Babies inside the TARDISes and calamari inside the Daleks. That might be gross, though.

Comments

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

Damn. That is fabulous!

[sabotabby]

I am pretty proud of it.

[gansje.livejournal.com]

Very impressive!!

I don't know a lot about chocolate making. Is there a way to make the tardises and daleks hollow?

[sabotabby]

Oh, probably, but it's beyond my skill level. I don't know anything about chocolate making; cupric_acetate did it and I watched, so hopefully I will be able to do it in the future and not have it turn into a separated mess like the last time I tried to do it.

[princealberic.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was going to suggest the cake interior thing. You could use the molds to bake TARDIS and Dalek cake and then coat them with chocolate. And yes, calamari are gross so no to that even though I'm not going to be eating them.

I love these, by the way! I'm not that into Doctor Who these days (though Peter Capaldi might change my mind) but these are awesome.

[sabotabby]

I wouldn't eat calamari obviously (Jelly Babies apparently contain gelatin so I wouldn't eat them either); I just think it'd be hilarious. It will probably be cake inside. Or nuts. Or both.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if one could perhaps make "tentacles" out of something non-cephalopodic. Perhaps one might simmer beet tails in a light broth until tender, and then perhaps use the moulds to shape a savoury pastry around them. Or one could bake the savoury pastry Dalek shells first, then insert a sort of shrimp cocktail thing with the shrimps sliced longitudinally a few times into something long and thin and more tentacular. My mum used to make a very simple and tasty sauce for them, which goes very simply (and which does not overwhelm the taste of the shrimps): in a bowl, put a dollop of mayonnaise (the real thing, not Miracle Whip; I totally agree with The Oatmeal about Miracle Whip and it would taste horrid here), about enough to cover the shrimp when you toss them in (I end up with about quarter to a third of a cup or so to make shrimp cocktail for us all); add a squirt of ketchup (Heinz, by preference), say about 1 part ketchup to 4 parts mayo or so (it's not very precise); add about a quarter teaspoon or so of shrimp cocktail sauce, and a dash or two of lemon juice. Mix well, add peeled and drained shrimp and toss until fully coated. Done. You'd add the shrimp mixture to the Dalek hors d'oeurves pastry shell once the pastry had cooled, and serve as close to immediately as can be managed so the pastry didn't go soggy, but you can do the shrimp mixture ahead of time although it's best done earlier the same day.

Hmm. I don't know what the moulds are made of, but could one melt a nice cheese into the shells, then make little cheese Daleks one might float in say a nice tomato soup? One could use a white outer cheese (say a nice Swiss or Emmenthal) and have something darker like a medium or aged cheddar in the middle, so all the orange gooey bits started floating around the soup after a while. Hee!

Dang, now I'm hungry. XD

[sabotabby]

Cheese is an interesting idea. Shrimps would be gross, though, and also not vegetarian. I don't think pastry would work as they're too detailed.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

That is a thing of beauty.

[sabotabby]

Isn't it excellent?

[nineteen68.livejournal.com]

Holy moly, that's amazing. I wanna eat one of each!

[sabotabby]

I just had one of the white chocolate ones and then I'd had enough chocolate.

[ironed_orchid]

Gummy worms or snakes inside the Daleks.

I am going to a screening with my friend K. and her daughter and half a dozen 14 yo Who fans.

[sabotabby]

Alas, gummy things are gross.

That sounds awesome. I plan to watch it on my projector, several days later.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

ILU

I wonder if just kind of dropping the silver balls into the interior of the chocolates would work? Or in general "fill chocolate with small crunchy things". It seems maybe easier to accomplish than filling them with tiny slices of cake. But idk.

[sabotabby]

But not tasty. Cookies, maybe.

[darkwaver.livejournal.com]

::GASPS IN AWE AND CHILDLIKE WONDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!::

[sabotabby]

:D