So last week's cake antics involved getting the KitchenAid out again...always ends in something good going in the oven! The lovely Callum turned 21 last week and fabulous musician that he is I thought I would create an
'Orange' Amp inspired chocolate ginger cake for him.
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| I absolutely LOVE Green & Blacks cocoa! |
Okay to the Brooklyn Blackout recipe I added a couple extra ingredients to taste...ginger powder...gingerbread rum (Marks and Spencers- thank you very much, just found this over Christmas!)
Baked in two square tins and cooled then sliced both cakes in two again...filled with chocolate frosting. This shows before I trimmed the cakes and cut off rough edges.
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| Strong arms required for coloring the icing...:( |
I next began to cover the cakes and board with the various colors.
Once covered and relatively smoothed I began painting a wood effect on the board and adding more color to the speaker covering on top of the cake.
The emblem and label is normally stitched onto the speaker covering of the amp, so a-painting I went...
I painted using concentrated icing gel colors (Wilton's I've found quite good to use, different consistencies gained with water). After I applied the emblem I made small corner coverings and got on with painting the dial symbols from the amp, instead of adding actual dials I thought it would be more effective with the symbols enlarged and surrounding the cake.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALLUM:)
The cake recipe was altered from one of The Hummingbird Bakery's...Brooklyn Blackout Cake(chocolate addicts heaven!)
