Dark Tower Cake.

[Ves'Ka Gan]

I'm a cook, and sort of an aspiring cake decorator, and today I came up wtih an idea for "Dark Tower Cake"...what I have so far:

Has to be a very rich, chocolate cake (for the DT itself)
Has to be a layer cake (no 1-level towers!)
Has to have a red filling between layers, to symbolize the Rose (thinking raspberry)
Has to have 19 ingredients total.

The last one is where I think there may be a problem...anybody bake? Help out!

1)eggs
2)flour
3)chocolate
4) water
5)sugar
6)crisco
7)rasperries

That's only seven!...

[alinda]

chocolate jimmys or stuff like that? Or would that
count as # 3 ?

[LemurJones]

Dude, if I made a Dark Tower cake, it would be a red velvet cake with straight-black frosting. That way it's red on the inside! RED LIKE BLOOD.

And I would mix up dark gray frosting for drawing little squiggly carved windows, and I would have a layer of cake that was the field, and it would be frosted red and topped with red sugar.

And, I would get a sugar ghost cake decoration and color it red, and make it lurk around the tower's bum.

[Ves'Ka Gan]

THAT is an awesome idea, Lemur!!!!

Now to figure out how to make a red-velvet cake with 19 ingredients....hmm..(red velvet 'tis my favorite!)

[razz]

different colored candies to make a plate glass window at the top.

[Bethany]

white chocolate frosting
chocolate frosting
fondant.

[theBeamisHome]

Do you watch Challenge! on Food Network when they have to make really fancy cakes? They do things like this sort of. And I know if I were to do it it would take a very long time but idk if you're that bored. Cuz you could make a field of roses around the bottom on the Tower cake. You could use fondant too.. although I'm not completely sure how they color it.. I know sometimes they use airbrush... lol ok I'm getting completely out of hand, but I think it's a really cool idea and I can just imagine. My younger sister is an aspiring baker.. maybe I should give her the challenge

[Bethany]

you color fondant with coloring gel and knead it in.

for the record, i want chocolate cake now.

[Woofer]

I'm a cook, and sort of an aspiring cake decorator, and today I came up wtih an idea for "Dark Tower Cake"...what I have so far:

Has to be a very rich, chocolate cake (for the DT itself)
Has to be a layer cake (no 1-level towers!)
Has to have a red filling between layers, to symbolize the Rose (thinking raspberry)
Has to have 19 ingredients total.

The last one is where I think there may be a problem...anybody bake? Help out!

1)eggs
2)flour
3)chocolate
4) water
5)sugar
6)crisco
7)rasperries

That's only seven!...

Emphasis mine. DEAR GOD NO!!! Why would you want to ruin a chocolate cake with... that?!

Dude, if I made a Dark Tower cake, it would be a red velvet cake with straight-black frosting. That way it's red on the inside! RED LIKE BLOOD.

And I would mix up dark gray frosting for drawing little squiggly carved windows, and I would have a layer of cake that was the field, and it would be frosted red and topped with red sugar.

And, I would get a sugar ghost cake decoration and color it red, and make it lurk around the tower's bum.

Now that's the cake I'd make.

[LemurJones]

I think we should all get together now and have a DT cake party!! That way we can be like "ooooo" and also "CAAAAKE"

Someone should do a gingerbread tower too

[LadyHitchhiker]

That sounds awesome, Lemur!!!!

[Ves'Ka Gan]

I working on it--the red velvet has the added bonus of needeing more ingredients than a regular cake, it needs buttermilk, food coloring in addition to the other stuff...and the frosting uses more than the "usual" buttercreme, too.

As soon as I come up with a 19 ingredient recipe, I'm going to start on it.

And Beam--that's "The Ace of Cakes" it's here in Baltimore. They make good stuff but when they do samplings the cake is stale....kind of a turn off when the guy's minimum charge is $500!!

[Matt]

I would think if you made the frosting from scratch, all of those ingredients could be counted in the total.

Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[theBeamisHome]

I working on it--the red velvet has the added bonus of needeing more ingredients than a regular cake, it needs buttermilk, food coloring in addition to the other stuff...and the frosting uses more than the "usual" buttercreme, too.

As soon as I come up with a 19 ingredient recipe, I'm going to start on it.

And Beam--that's "The Ace of Cakes" it's here in Baltimore. They make good stuff but when they do samplings the cake is stale....kind of a turn off when the guy's minimum charge is $500!!

What?? $500?? Never for stale cake no matter how good they are.

And I know about Ace of Cakes too. My dad is from Baltimore, but on Challenge! they often do challenges in which chefs compete for like $10,000. They have to design a cake for someone's special something be it a birthday or wedding, ect.

psssh..... $500.. the madness..

[razz]

make sure you get a picture of it for the site

[educatedlady]

I have a recipe for red velvet cake & frosting...there are only 17 ingredients though.

[LadyHitchhiker]

So you add two kinds of frosting to the top...

[LadyHitchhiker]

Then it iwll be even better because it will represent the red and the white..

[Bethany]

red velvet cake is nasty/

[LemurJones]

red velvet cake is nasty/

then I'm taking your slice and there's nothin you can do about it.

[Woofer]

And Beam--that's "The Ace of Cakes" it's here in Baltimore. They make good stuff but when they do samplings the cake is stale....kind of a turn off when the guy's minimum charge is $500!!

Exsqueeze me? I watched this show the other night because it sounded cool. Never seen it before. I was extremely underimpressed with his work. The truly impressive stuff was not edible; it was frosted wood and metal. WTF?! I mean srsly. It was a wooden structure, with a sheet cake inside, and the cake and wooden bits around the cake were frosted. Well, damn, ace, just about anybody can build a model of Wriggley field with WOOD. I thought you were going to make it with cake and frosting and hot ribbon candy and decorator candy bits and creativity. Hrumph.

Mr. Woofer, who has worked as a professional cake decorator at Piece o' Cake (It was in Birmingham. Bethany, did you ever eat there? ) and who builds miniatures for hobby and, to an extent, current work, had plenty to say about their "methods". I have to agree. When I think specialty cakes, I'm thinking that the special bits will be edible TOO.

Phew! Sorry about that.

As far as the cake goes, I second adding the two additional frostings for the red and the white. Voila! You have achieved the tower and 19, too!

[Bethany]

No, can't say that I ever ate there.
Damn, I really want some chocolate cake.-

[Ves'Ka Gan]

Oooohhhh yes....I wish it weren't so ridiculously hot here already or I might have started this project already....

As an aside--when I was learning garnish and cake decorating (with the USMC!) the #1 rule was it should all be edible. I can see a smalle bit or two being cardboard or something, but when the majority of the "cake" is made of non-edible stuff, it really isn't an awesome cake as much as it's a cool art project with icing on it.

[jayson]

I watched this show the other night because it sounded cool. Never seen it before. I was extremely underimpressed with his work. The truly impressive stuff was not edible; it was frosted wood and metal. WTF?! I mean srsly. It was a wooden structure, with a sheet cake inside, and the cake and wooden bits around the cake were frosted. Well, damn, ace, just about anybody can build a model of Wriggley field with WOOD. I thought you were going to make it with cake and frosting and hot ribbon candy and decorator candy bits and creativity. Hrumph.

i watched this show a couple of times and thought the exact same thing. it would be significantly more impressive if they made the "cakes" out of cake.

[Bethany]

fondant is nasty.