(My) Cakes

[Sundae]

So.
Chocolate Castle Cake.

I made this with a view to presenting one for the May Fayre.
I am now unsure I will recreate it, and might just go with making a cake using my castle mould.

The main issue with the chocolate "bricks".
I bought a large bar of choc, and just assumed I'd be able to break it into equal pieces. NO. It resisted this furiously, either breaking right across the bricks, or adding a little bit on and taking a little bit off the next one. The result looks more like a castle ruin. Or a cake made by a special needs committee.

Of course I persevered, as no-one else has the picture I was trying to recreate (although you could find it, I'd rather you didn't) and I know I am pretty much my worst critic. The Oreos worked okay, but now I know where I can get the ones with a chocolate filling, so I would use those next time.

Despite my fears, the sponge cake tastes okay, and I have put the offcuts in the freezer to make cakepops.

The only thing I have left to do is to finish the towers. Four chocolate caramel wafer cornets to act as turrets. I won't do that til tomorrow morning because I want to keep the cake in a tin overnight (it won't fit with the cones on) and I don't want actual wafers to go too stale. I doubt they'll be eatn anyway, but best to preserve them if I can.

I was going to cut them down, but it turns o9ut they look pretty good exactly as they are.

So - cake before turrets.
Will take another pic of the finished item tomorrow.