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Shrunken Head Chocolate

Shrunken Head prototype in chocolate. About 4cm high. Would you eat it?

Ministry of Stories – Monster Pond

A dessert table put together by Iced Over Cakes for the Ministry of Stories; a creative writing and mentoring centre for young people in East London. From cockroach cupcakes to mudpies to monster fish cookies (by Nevie-Pie Cakes) to my own chocolate snails to moss balls and much much more, a monster's treat. 

you'll find more here:

Iced Over Cakes

Nevie-Pie Cakes

Miss Cakehead

Ministry of Stories

Variations on a Theme

Spikey chocolate snails...

Kerrang! 2012

The brilliant Emma Thomas (aka MissCakehead) and Natasha Collins put together a Medieval Banquet for the 2012 Kerrang! Awards. I was, and still am, honoured to be part of it with chocolate snails, a chocolate frog and some frog spawn. To cleanse the palate so to speak...

Chicken feet cake pops were made by Lou Lou P's Delights.

Cake filled green eggs, marzipan fingers, arrow pierced hearts and a Roasted Swan Cake by the Conjurer's Kitchen.

Chrystalised flowers by Eat My Flowers
Royal Skull by Iced Over Cakes London

Fish Cookies by Natasha from Nevie-Pie Cakes (who kindly lent me these pictures). More info and pictures on her very interesting Nevie-Pie Cakes Blog.

Chocolate Frog/Toad

Here's the original clay sculpture and a white chocolate frog as it comes out of the mould. No frogs were hurt in the process. More news and pics on this over the next few days! Or swiftly go follow @MissCakehead on Twitter.

More from the whole team here: Kerrang! Awards

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 Snail

This is a prototype of a chocolate snail.
It's linked to a project with the lovely Miss Cakehead and the equally lovely Natasha from Nevie-Pie Cakes.
Have a look at their work, you'll be amazed!

http://misscakehead.wordpress.com/
http://amelieshouse.blogspot.co.uk/

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...

Skull

In progress this one. Sneak detail preview. You're looking at chocolate.

Brian

Chocolate sculpture. When posted on facebook he was promptly named Brian. Brian was made out of pure dark high quality chocolate with bits of white for his eyes and teeth and green coloured cocoa butter. Unfortunately he stayed out in the sun too long and has since lost quite a bit of his appeal.

Wedding Fair

Wedding Fair at the Addington Palace in Croydon on the 29th of January 2012. Cake dummies decorated with pure chocolate and coloured cocoa butter. The little birds were cast in a mould from a clay sculpture. Each cake would easily feed 50 people but could ofcourse be made bigger.
Special thanks to everyone who came to see us and to Lauren ofcourse; it was great fun.

Maya's Butterfly Cake

'Maya's turning five and loves butterflies. And we all love chocolate'.

Chocolate layer cake with dark ganache filling, a solid pure white chocolate 'five' with chocolate daisies and chocolate butterflies. The colours were achieved by mixing white tempered chocolate with coloured cocoa butter. Poor things had all been eaten before they got the chance to escape.