Chocolate Plasticine Cake

Through an unfortunate series of events there are no pictures of this cake when it was finished. But it at least gives an impression. It's all chocolate on the outside, chocolate plasticine for the sculpture. I know it's difficult to see here, but she's looking up. In case you're wondering...

Chocolate Plasticine Cake

Here's a picture of one of this weekend's cakes... Vanilla sponge with dark chocolate ganache, all covered in chocolate. Figures made from my very own pure chocolate plasticine.

Chocolate Plasticine

Since I don't like the more traditional recipes for modelling chocolate, I'm now on a quest to create my very own. It'll allow me to make more elaborate sculptures rather than going through the very time consuming moulding and casting stages. And it'll liberate me hopefully from the restrictive properties of liquid chocolate.

Traditional recipes call for anything from corn syrup to glycerine to paraffin. They either affect the taste too much or change the mouthfeel associated with chocolate, or are frankly inedible. And since it's my goal to make cakes that can be entirely eaten apart from the cake board, the latter is out of the question...