Dark Tower Cake.

[John Blaze]

wtf is fondant anyway?

[Bethany]

almond paste, sugar and some other crap.
it can be colored and rolled out to cover cakes to give then a smooth finish or shaped in to pretty much anything. i personally think it tastes like sweet play doh.

[Ves'Ka Gan]

Yes, fondant is pretty weird tasting. Most of the best 'decorating' frostings, are too, though...we learned a recipe that was basically 1 part crisco 1 part powdered sugar. It was greasy and really weird tasting--but it LOOKED awesome. Go figure.

[Ves'Ka Gan]

1 cup vegetable shortening
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon cocoa powder
2 ounces red food coloring
2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vinegar
White frosting, recipe follows

White Frosting:
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

So that's[edit: 14 ingredients...flour & vanilla extract is mentioned twice.] ingredients. Add black food coloring to make the "white" frosting black and that is 15.

I'm thinking the inside of the cake (between layers) should be something else...so maybe that's where my last four ingredients are hiding...

[Bethany]

you can do an almond flavored filling (my favorite)

[Ves'Ka Gan]

A cherry filling from a black forest cake recipe..

2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 1/4 cups kirsch
2 (15-ounce) cans dark sweet pitted cherries in heavy syrup
2 tablespoons cornstarch

That's 3 additional leaving us with one left... *off to look at almond fillings...*

[Brice]

To me even cardboard is cheating. All parts of a cake should totally be edible.

[Bethany]

haha! i'm making cupcakes with homemade chocolate frosting.

[Jean]

almond paste, sugar and some other crap.
it can be colored and rolled out to cover cakes to give then a smooth finish or shaped in to pretty much anything. i personally think it tastes like sweet play doh.

bears love fondant
they also love marzipan
fudge
any king of frosting
custard
creme-brulee
creme-caramel
any other kind of cream
condenced milk
pink chocolate
white chocolate
any other chocolate
and so on

are we still talking about the Tower Cake, or should part of this conversation be taken to Fatten Your Friends?

[Woofer]

Cherry's better than raspberry anyway. I still say don't ruin the chocolateness of the cake with fruity anything. Just make colored frosting and let it go!

[Ka-mai]

Try using chocolate squares (like from a Hershey's bar) as bricks to make the outside.

Only face the logo inwards.

Ooh! And use white chocolate squares for windows!

[LemurJones]

Red food color for BLOODY BLOODY BLOODY COLORS

I WANT A CAKE THAT BLEEDS WHEN YOU CUT IT

[Ves'Ka Gan]

Red velvet is red on the inside--hence the name...and if I used the cherry filling--it would "bleed"

[theBeamisHome]

I concur on the chocolate bricks idea. this one baker on Challenge made a dark castle almost completely out of chocolate it was pretty creepy and awesome looking.. i'll see if i can find a picture.. ok i can't but it doesn't much matter since it was a candy castle, but still a good idea..

oh and red velvet with bleeding cherry filling??

[Ves'Ka Gan]

I'm thinking of getting several cake tins in different circumfrences as well, so that I can stack a few "teirs" to make it look like a real tower! I'll probably have to "cheat" and keep the layers together with wooden dowels through the middle--but I think it's gonna look COOL!

(I think the chocolate bricks win as the 19th ingredient, too! And instead of using different chocolate for the windows, I will leave small sections blank so the black frsoting will be in the opn to look like a sunken window...)

*this is going to be one crazy shopping list!!*

[theBeamisHome]

I love it! great ideas! and we get pictures!! then... cake! lol

[Ves'Ka Gan]

Depending on where I am living when it gets done (I am moving next month then again in October!) I'll invite who ever's close by to sample it!

[Ka-mai]

Holy crap, I had an idea people liked!

I am so excited!