xtreme chocolate cake

by Michelle Mycroft
(Papakura, Akl, NZ)

This is a deep rectangle eggless chocolate cake covered in 2 layers of Fondant icing. Top layer of fondant is coloured with Capri Blue colour gel. You need to buy a box of Cadbury's Continental Chocolates & Favourites Chocolates. Before you ice you cake, lift out the entire chocolate packaging insert & position in the middle if the cake. Mark with a knife the outside of the insert on the cake. Remove the insert & cut down into the cake the depth of the insert. Remove cake from centre so that the insert can fix in perfectly. Cover with the first layer of fondant making a slit in each corner of the centre hole to fit icing making sure no cake is showing.

Repeat with coloured icing. Place the ribbon around & ice & pin in place. Then place chocolate insert in place & decorate with a wilton star tip & royal icing. Place Chocolate Favourites around cake edge & on the board setting in place with royal icing. Make Fondant stars using a cookie cutter & paint with silver lustre dust.

I saw a larger but shallow version of this cake without the favourites where they had used a large catering box, 8 inserts of chocolate & decorated the box lid with icing to make it all look like a box of Chocolates.