For katie's birthday she wanted choco cake, with choco chips and choco frosting.
I bought a jumbo cupcake pan on sale a couple of weeks ago, so I'm gona try it for her bday.
Original recipe- Cake Central
I first made a hard chocolate mold in the cake pan. I bought semi sweet choco chips, then melted them over the stove. ( I usually melt choco chips in the micro with a little oil, but I did the stove top b/c I had to put layers of choco in the cake pan and freeze each layer in between reapplying.)
So I got a small sauce pan and a small glass bowl that would hold 12oz of choco chips and about 2t of oil. On the cake pan spray non-stick spray then add the layers of choco. I wanted the choco chips to stay warm and not get hardened while waiting to reapply the next layer while the cake pan with choco was in the freezer.
The freezer probably took 15-20 min between each layer of applying choco to harden it. I layered about 3-4 layers of chocolate.
To get the choco mold out, Attempt #1 fill up the sink with hot water and dip the bottom part of the cake pan for a few minutes and then turn the cake pan upside down to get the mold out. Attempt #2 the first attempt didn't work, so I put the faucet on hot and rotated the outside of the pan to loosen the choco mold, then put down a clean plate and shook up and down the mold on to the plate. (it worked) Then put the mold in the fridge while I cooked the cake.
When cake is done put it in freezer to cool it down for 30min and then I needed to cut off an inch around the sides so I would fit inside the chocolate hard mold.
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