Big Cakes: Chocolate Spiral

Name: Big Cakes: Chocolate Spiral
Yield: Serves 25-30
Ingredients: 60-70 mint or rose leaves with prominent veins, washed and dried thoroughly; 100 g 70% cocoa solids chocolate, broken into squares; 60 gold dragees; strong sticky tape; 2 × recipe Fudge Icing; 40 g sugarpaste or marzipan; butter, for the mould

Preparation info

Serves
25-30

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

I love this unusual cone-shaped cake. I know someone who once used a traffic cone to make it... not to be encouraged! It is very easy, though fairly messy. Try to make this in the cooler months, when working with chocolate and making chocolate leaves is so much easier.

Ingredients

2 × Family Chocolate Cake
2 × recipe Fudge Icing

Cake
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Make the cone. The centre of the long side of the cardboard is to be its tip. Twist the cardboard around, tape very firmly into place and cut the base flat; your cone should be about 35cm high and 20cm in diameter. Very lightly butter the inside and line with clingfilm. Stand it upside down in a suitable stable container, such as a large vase.

Now cut out rounds of cake with a sharp kni

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