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Chocolate biscuit cake

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  • 21-09-2012 8:10pm
    #1
    tilt_rue
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    HEY!!!
    I am taking part in a charity bake sale and what I want to do is make a 2 tiered chocolate bisuit cake covered in royal icing and decorated with various trinkets {iced flowers etc} my query is wat would be the best "glue" to keep the tiers together and the keep the decorations on it..:D:D:D:D:D:D:D


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    #2
    emzolita
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    id suggest melted apricot jam to keep layers together (dunno if you'd need dowels) to glue the trinkets on ya can get edible glue for 3 euro, its very handy. If not, a simple sugar syrup can be used too.


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    #3
    tilt_rue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭tilt_rue


    mmmmm apricot jam!!!!!thanks or that!!!:):):):):):)


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    phormium
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    Are you just sticking the two tiers directly together without a board in between? If you are then I would use chocolate. Is the cake being raffled or being cut and eaten at the auction, it may be easier for cutting to put each tier on its own board. There will be no need for dowels for a 2 tier chocolate biscuit cake.

    If you are covering the whole cake then in royal icing your decorations will stick to the royal icing. If you don't mind me asking why royal icing? It is an unusual covering for a chocolate biscuit cake.


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    tilt_rue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭tilt_rue


    phormium wrote: »
    Are you just sticking the two tiers directly together without a board in between? If you are then I would use chocolate. Is the cake being raffled or being cut and eaten at the auction, it may be easier for cutting to put each tier on its own board. There will be no need for dowels for a 2 tier chocolate biscuit cake.

    If you are covering the whole cake then in royal icing your decorations will stick to the royal icing. If you don't mind me asking why royal icing? It is an unusual covering for a chocolate biscuit cake.

    Well I've worked with royal icing before and I liked it. No its being eaten straight away


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    phormium
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    Fair enough I suppose if you like it, I'm partial to a bit of it on fruit cake myself, much prefer it to sugarpaste but I like when it has really dried hard, the contrast with the cake is nice. I like a chocolate sugarpaste on cbc if something is needed, a white chocolate ganache would be similar consistency to royal icing and would be good with it either, not as white though obviously.

    If it's being cut up on the night then might be easier not to stick them together so that top tier can be lifted off easily and both can be cut separately or just lightly stick them in center to hold it together, the icing will keep them together anyway.


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    jodina3
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    All you need is some stiff royal icing to stick everything together it works a treat every time. A nice blob of icing in the middle of first tier an place second tier on and then small blobs for trinkets. Happy decorating :)


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    kerash
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    Use the Royal icing will do a great job (thick enough not to run or drip)!


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    #9
    tilt_rue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭tilt_rue


    thanks for the advise. the cake went down a treat


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