I am making a flourless chocolate cake with ancho chili powder. I have made the cake many times and it always gets great reviews. My problem comes with Decorating the cake.
Traditionally, I have dusted cocoa and powdered sugar in a pattern on the cake. I would somehow like to decorate the cake to reflect that it has chili powder in it. Perhaps making a chili pepper out of some edible confection for the top
Any good ideas on what I can do?
You can melt white chocolate and color it. Then pipe a pattern of a southwest scene (cactus, etc) or a chili pepper
November 21st, 2011 at 4:30 pm
You could make a stencil in the chili pepper shape and dust the top with contrasting cocoa and powdered sugar to make it stand out.
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November 21st, 2011 at 5:08 pm
You can melt white chocolate and color it. Then pipe a pattern of a southwest scene (cactus, etc) or a chili pepper
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November 21st, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I was going to say stencil, but got beat to it. Still a good idea.
You can make your decorations out of something like marzipan. this is the almond paste you get in the grocery stores. just color it red and green and you have the State of New Mexico’s official question!! Red Or Green???
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November 21st, 2011 at 6:20 pm
If you don’t do the pepper stencil how about making flame stencils and use them. Dust the top of the cake in your usual way. Or you could use a combo of the confectioners sugar and enhance it with some cinnamon or paprika for added color
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November 21st, 2011 at 6:32 pm
I love confectioner’s sugar on chocolate cakes. How about 2 or 3 whole dried chilis on the top center of the cake? Think it would look pretty and make people question why the chilis were used
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