Happy New Year! I hope you all have a wonderful celebration ringing in 2016! To celebrate the big night, I am showing you to make a Chocolate Explosion Cake! It’s also a great way to use up all of your chocolates that you received during Christmas.
You know how every year you somehow end up with boxes and boxes of chocolates? I despise those boxes. Every single one of them. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love chocolate, but I hate cheap chocolate! If you present someone with a box of chocolates, have it be the specialty ones from the local chocolate shop-not the box that has that one chocolate covered cherry that everyone tries to avoid by using the chocolate map.
So this year, I’ve finally figured out a way of using them up in one idea! I will admit I usually regift them (you do that too, right?) and this year, I used them for this cake! If you’ve ever given me a box of chocolates, rest assured that the box went to a new, more loving, more appreciative, more deserving home.
You might even get to head down and get some of the chocolates you actually want to eat to make this cake! Look for lots of different lengths, shades and shapes if you find yourself in the seasonal section of the grocery store. At least the chocolate boxes will be on clearance by now!
New Years Eve Chocolate Explosion Cake
Ingredients:
- 8″ round chocolate cake
- chocolate buttercream
- chocolate ganache
- assorted chocolates of various sizes
Procedure:
- Cover prepared cake in chocolate buttercream.
- Pour chocolate ganache on top of the cake and allow to drip down the sides.
- Sort chocolates according to size. Place the longest (tallest) chocolates together in the center of the cake, pressing them down so they stand vertically. While working outwards toward the edge of the cake, use the chocolates that decrease in height/length.
- While adding chocolates around the outside edge, point the chocolates outwards so they appear to be exploding from the edges of the cake.
- To make chocolates that explode above the cake, use stainless steel or copper wire. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical tool/utensil to create a coil. Insert one end of the wire into the chocolate and the other into the cake.
- Using small chocolates, place a border around the bottom of the cake. Use additional buttercream to secure to the side of the cake.
- Cake can be kept in the fridge and is best consumed within 2-3 days.
I thought you werent supposed to put wires directly into cake…?
These are stainless steel, or you can use copper. They are both considered food safe.
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were do you get the Salted Dulce de Leche Caramel sauce from it looks delicious please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from the Caramel Apple Cake (Salted Dulce de Leche Caramel Apple Spice)
I got it at the Real Canadian Superstore.
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