For a drizzle, 4 ounces of chocolate and 1/2 cup of cream should do it.
It’s easy and you can use it right away as a glaze or let it sit and thicken for a few hours, then spread it like soft frosting. To make the ganache, use equal amounts of a good dark chocolate and heavy cream. If you prefer a traditional drizzle, I recommend making a ganache. I used thick, fudge-like icing on my cake. Still, if it looks like a pound cake, and tastes like a pound cake, well. I used leavening (just a little) and my egg, sugar, flour, and butter ratio isn’t exactly the same. I’d like to call this a pound cake, but technically it isn’t. (If he’s not the outdoors type, use his favorite team colors instead.) I covered my cake with a fudgy coating topped with crushed chocolate cookies, chocolate deer, and candy trees. I'm on to my next challenge.If you want a little bang for your buck this Father’s Day, make the man in your life a camouflage cake. They loved there camouflage cake, and said it looked phenomenal, and tasted great. The next lesson is don't ask your husband for an opinion cause if he doesn’t agree with you-he's wrong period!!! He told me my tree trunk was too round. So I made the bottom layer like a tree trunk. LOLĭecided I couldn't stand the idea of 3 layers of Mossy Oak Breakup edible image so I asked the bride if I could do something different on the bottom and she said fine. He wanted to go play golf and kept asking when I would be done….and you think when the kids are gone=peace. He took the day off just to bug me, I swear. My husband’s fault, he kept distracting me that Monday and I wasn’t watching the timing. When I was putting the cake together the night before I found out my blueberry cheesecake wasn’t cooked on the bottom and I had to remake it at 9pm. Everyone thought they were real and made the cake. 3rd time was the charm (with some glue help) and I thought I'm done with this brilliant idea. They kept breaking at the middle right at the end when I would paint them. It took me 3 tries before I got a good set. My friend had some from his woods for me to use as a guide. Then I came up with the bright idea of making antlers to rest against the cake. Didn't really want them anyway and I won't put fake plastic stuff on my cakes. They took aboutĢ weeks to really dry well. Next I started making gum paste leaves and painted them in fall colors. I found what I needed there at a decent price and ordered Elk, Moose, Doe, Buck and a Fawn. She said "NO", rolled her eyes like I was crazy, and walked away. My second stop was Michaels and I asked if by chance they had any deer around from Christmas. Dianne (his wife and owner) was teaching a gelatin flower class so he helps out.
He found the image and told me to call him when I needed it and helped me measure the cakes. He said camouflage weddings were popular-in the fall and winter. Darrin was really nice and didn't laugh too much at the picture. Lolįirst stop was Cake Connection in Jackson Mi. Oh, hunter orange for trim that was hard for me to do not my color. Lemon cake on the bottom with lemon filling, buttermilk chocolate with chocolate mousse middle and blueberry cheesecake for the top. So we decided on Mossy Oak Breakup for the edible image, deer, elk and moose- the rest left to my imagination. I had done some research and truthfully couldn't find one camo cake that I liked, and they liked the one that I liked the least! It had bears and twigs and camouflage edible image. The bride and groom are avid hunters and wanted a cake to reflect that theme. When I did a consultation for this cake I had no idea what I was in for.I like to do new things and this one was 'the one'.