Chocolate Choo Choo

Choo Choo Cake

This was an interesting project.  A woman brought in her cake pan from Williams and Sonoma.  They make beautiful things, but nothing a bakery would ever touch just because of the impractical nature of the equipment.  This was a case in point.  The client wanted the end product to look like the photo on the cake pan.  Well, it was naked cake with a few candies glued to it.  Cute, but hardly practical.  Let that baby sit out for an hour and it would be hard and stale and nasty to eat.  Cute but nasty.  Hardly the reputation a bakery really needs.  So we finally settled upon the idea of making them from Chocolate cake and putting on a very thin coat of chocolate ganache to coat them so that they would not dry out.  Some of the detail from the pan was lost but not too bad.  So I went back in with the icing to bring out the details and the client was very happy with how it turned out.  And who wouldn’t love a chocolate cake frosted in chocolate ganache?  Yummmmm!