Thursday 31 May 2012

Corgi cake balls

The Queen's corgi dogs - just in time for the Jubilee!


I'm planning a fairly ambitious bake for the Jubilee weekend (which is also my mum's birthday) but in the meantime thought I would share this with you. I made corgi dog cake balls! And here's how I did it.

Take one madeira cake that you've already baked, and turn into cake crumbs.


Mix with buttercream to make a play-dough type consistency.


Attempt to make cake pops. Fail completely. Discover the balls keep falling off the sticks and eventually give up and decide to do something else with the damn things.
True story... lol!

Roll out some leftover brown-coloured fondant, and cover the cake ball completely.
Look online for pictures of corgi dogs as you can't quite remember what they look like.
Make a nose and central face stripe from white fondant, and ears from the brown fondant.
Assemble like so.


Take chocolate chips you had bought for another recipe, and insert two point-first as the eyes, and another one as the nose.

Repeat as desired. Do you think they look like corgis? They definitely look like dogs!


I'm planning to include these with my main Jubilee bake but in the meantime I am entering them in the Blogging Jubilee Baking Competition hosted by Homemade by Fleur. The competition is sponsored by Appliances Online .The deadline is June 3rd so you still have a few days to get your entries in!


Because this used up leftover fondant, and ingredients I bought for another recipe, and cake that I would have otherwise thrown away as the cake pops failed, I am entering this into Frugal Food Fridays. I am guest hosting the challenge on behalf of Helen from Fuss Free Flavours from now until the end of June.

 

13 comments:

  1. These are so cute, and are definitely recognisable as corgis!

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    1. Thank you, I think they are but I'm not sure everyone would agree!

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  2. Too cute. Can't wait to see the finished cake!!

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    1. Thanks Dom! I started on the main cake last night, just baking the sponge... but another rather clever blogger has already made the same cake (I won't say who) but I doubt mine will turn out as well as hers! I think I might put the corgis around the edge as they are not actually part of the design for the other cake but obviously go together quite well! Good luck in the Times comp by the way - I didn't enter as I am doing my jubilee cake this weekend and couldn't really justify making it twice!

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  3. They came out really well - love these as they are so different and I don't think I've ever seen them before.

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    1. Really? Cool! I didn't get the idea from anywhere in particular, I was just thinking of jubilee stuff and how to use up the cake pops that went wrong!

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  4. Smashing, I have no patience to make such things and don't know how you do it but I love them . x

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    1. Thanks - they were actually quite quick to make!

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  5. These are so cute - what a brilliant idea! now why didn't I think of this? :)

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    1. It was just a spur of the moment idea - I'm quite pleased with how they turned out!

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  6. I adore these!

    thanks for sending to Frugal Food Fridays!

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  7. Those corgies are so cute...

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  8. I absolutely love it, they look so cute!

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