Dustbin
Tales
A
good friend of ours is one of my favourite types of people, the sort of person
who will eat anything. I cannot stand fussy eaters. (I know I contradict myself
a bit on this because of not liking cheese but you know what I mean) So of
course I am always delighted when he comes round to dinner or drinks and I can
palm of some of my latest invention on him. He is always a grateful receiver of
any cookies, brownies or cake that are left lying round the house which I baked
as a stress reliever and can’t persuade any of our family to eat any more. So I
was delighted when I was asked to cater his 21st birthday. I had
absolutely free reign on a savoury and sweet canapé spread; I could experiment
with mini macaroons, cheesecake bites, three different sorts of dip and mini
toad in the hole. I made mini satay chicken, white wine jellies, chargrilled
squid and mini apple pies. Most of all I got to make a spread sheet to organise
the whole thing – brilliant! The only request was that I make a cake like the
one his mum made for him every year for his birthday.
As
I mentioned before this friend was famous for eating everything, so his mum had
come up with a dustbin cake. A chocolate cake with the top sliced off, topped
with all the disgusting gummy sweets he wasn’t allowed most of the year and
then the top of the cake placed over them. Now I wanted to go one step further
for this cake. So I planned a 4 layer chocolate cake, of which I cut out a hole
in each layer. I filled the hole with gummy sweets, smothered the cake in
chocolate icing with a few token gummy worms making their exits down the sides
and topped the whole thing off with a pure chocolate disc lid. On this lid I
piped lines coming off the centre and added on a fondant handle and there you
have it a pure chocolate dustbin. I was later told that this was breakfast for
weeks afterwards, ah well better to over cater than under….
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