I hope all fathers had a wonderful day yesterday!
I made this vegan metal detecting cake for my dad. It's a black forest flavour and filled with chocolate coins!
Does your dad or someone in your family love metal detecting? This cake would be perfect for a birthday cake as well!
I used sugar and crumbs black forest icing sugar but you could use any flavoured icing sugar and find your favourite flavours!
This cake is simple to make and only takes a few hours after the chocolate coins are made.
To make the chocolate coins I used this silocone mould. I think it gave the coins an even better effect as it looks like treasure in the cake.
I would have liked to make them gold but I didn't have a chance to buy any cold paint.
You can make as many chocolate coins as you would like to fill your cake with.
It doesn't take a lot of chocolate to fill the mould each time and it only takes about 45-60 minutes in the freezer before you can take them out.
Cut your cake into 3 layers.
Spread a little butter icing around the edge of the bottom layer.
Cut a square out the middle of your second layer, it doesn't have to be exact.
Place the second layer on top and fill the whole with your chocolate coins.
Place the third layer on top and place the cake in the fridge to let the icing set. This helps keep the cake in place while you decorate it.
Spread a thin layer of butter icing around the whole cake, a crumb coat. This is used to keep the crumbs in place.
Place the cake in the fridge to let the icing set.
Spread the rest of the butter icing around the cake and spread it out.
Use a small spoon to create some holes and fill them with chocolate soil.
You can add some chocolate coins in the holes too.
Pipe your grass, using the green butter icing and a small circular nozzle. You can do this however you would like, I decided to keep it simple.
Add your metal detector and spade.
Keep in the fridge until ready to serve
Serve and Enjoy!
I hope you and whoever you make this for love this as much as we do!
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Metal Detecting Cake
Ingredients
Cake;
2 ⅔ Cups Self-Raising Flour
2 Cups Caster Sugar
2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2 Cups Milk
2-3 tsp Vanilla Essence
⅔ Cup Vegetable Oil
2 tbsp Cider Vinegar
Black Forest Butter Icing;
500g Black Forest Icing Sugar - Sugar and Crumbs
220g Butter
1-2 tsp Vanilla Essence
Green Butter Icing;
125g Icing Sugar
55g Butter
1-2 tsp Vanilla Essence
Green Food Colouring
Chocolate Soil;
25g Caster Sugar
19g Chocolate
1/4tbsp Water
Other;
Black and red fondant
Chocolate for Coins - Amount up to you
Method
Cake;
Preheat the oven 180C and prepare a 20cm square baking tin
Sift the flour and bicarb into a large mixing bowl
Add the sugar and mix to combine
Add the milk, vinegar, oil and vanilla essence.
Mix until smooth
Pour the mix into your prepared tin
Cover the tin with foil
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Let cool completely before decorating.
Black Forest Butter Icing;
Place the butter and vanilla into a large mixing bowl.
Sift the icing sugar into your bowl.
Mix until completely smooth.
Place in the fridge until ready to use.
Green Butter Icing;
Place the butter and vanilla into a large mixing bowl.
Sift the icing sugar into your bowl.
Mix until completely smooth.
Place in the fridge until ready to use.
Chocolate Coins;
Melt your chocolate and pour it into your moulds.
Place in the freezer until chocolate is hard enough to remove from the mould
Remove from the mould, keep in the freezer until ready to use
Repeat this until you have made the amount of coins you would like to make.
Chocolate Soil;
Place the sugar and water in a small saucepan.
Bring to a boil, as the sugar melts, and add the chocolate.
Stir continuously until the chocolate has melted.
Pour onto a small piece of baking parchment, cover the parchment over the top.
Place in the fridge or freezer until completely cool and solid.
Place in a bowl or pestle and mortar and break into little pieces to create a crumbly mix.
Fondant;
Use the black fondant to create the metal detector; Make a small disc and make a thin log around a toothpick.
Put the toothpick into the disc
Make a little handle at the top
Cut two small lines into the disc, one either side.
Place in the fridge until needed.
Use the red fondant to make the spade and the black to make a handle.
Place in the fridge until needed.
Decorate;
Cut your cake into 3 layers.
Spread some of the black forest butter icing around the edge of your first layer.
Cut a large square out the center of the second layer
Place the outside of the second layer on top of the first layer.
Pour your chocolate coins into the middle of the cake.
Take the square you cut out the center, cut it into 2 to make it thinner and place one of them on top of the coins.
Spread black forest butter icing over the top of the cake and place the last layer of cake on top.
Place in the fridge for 10-15 minutes to let the icing set.
Spread a thin layer of icing over the whole of the cake, crumb coat, and place the cake in the fridge for another 10 minutes
Spread the last of the black forest butter icing over the outside of the cake and smooth it out.
Use a little spoon to scoop a few whole out of the top of the cake and replace the cake with chocolate soil. You can place half a chocolate coin in each whole too.
Pipe, using a small circle nozzle, green butter icing over the whole of the cake to look like grass.
Place the metal detector and spade in place
Place the cake in the fridge until ready to serve
Serve
Enjoy!
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