Help! Need Alternative To Cake To Decorate For A Graduation
Decorating By Edibleart Updated 24 Jul 2006 , 2:24pm by LittleLinda
The "cake" needs to feed around 60 people. I was thinking about making a stack of books using Rice Crispy bars or maybe double stacked cookies? Do you use the same frosting that you would use on a cake or something different. Any other ideas?
Thanks
I have also seen someone use cookies. I thought it was discussed on Cake central, but i can't find the pictures or the thread. They used their regular cake pan and baked different layers of cookies I believe. Then layerd them with icing in between.
Chocolate chip cookies with buttercream icing... ohhh the best!
Leily
I had some scoops of chocolate chip cookie dough in the freezer so I baked them up and frosted them with some leftover buttercream I had. They really liked to slide around on me so after I crumb coated them I put them in the fridge and then they were much easier to finish frosting. I stacked 4 high and it made a nice size miniature cake. I kept it in the fridge overnight and took it out to cut today. It was really hard but I got a nice clean cut. It tasted really yummy!!! Later when I tried to cut another piece off (after it had been out for a few hours) then I had a problem with getting it cut. It wanted to slide around and seperate. An electric knife helped but it was rather messy! The taste was definitely worth it and it made a pretty presentation when cut. I did look through other posts and found the cake that edencakes had made out of cookies also. Really neat! Now I might have to try to the Rice Krispie treats - maybe the peanut butter ones with a poured chocolate/peanut butter frosting to smooth the surface before adding the buttercream. I'll see if that tastes yummy too!
You can try a Mille Crepe cake..... It is YuMMY!
Just remember, crepes are time consuming!
Here is the link:
http://www.lovescool.com/archives/2005/05/18/ladym
"Now I might have to try to the Rice Krispie treats - maybe the peanut butter ones with a poured chocolate/peanut butter frosting to smooth the surface before adding the buttercream. I'll see if that tastes yummy too!"
Snickerdoodles - and yes, they are great! Make a stack, and cover in ganache, add decorations!
There's a post around here somewhere about a cookie cake where the "inventor" posted her recipe. I used it to make a layered "cake" for my sister's birthday and it turned out great except I used too much pudding between layers.
The cookies were cooked soft but she had some amendments to the cookie recipe. I did I think four or five 8 or 9" round cookies. Stacked using some pudding between layers and covered with choc ganache. When we went to cut it later, the cookies and pudding all sorta melded and it was soft to cut but definitely not a clean cut. Next time I think I'll use maybe a little buttercream between the layers to keep the pudding from softening the cookies so much.
Overall though the cake was LOVED! Everyone who was there loved it and my sister's friend decided I was her new competition!!
HTH!
Dia
Zmama (any everybody), please be careful using peanut butter in anything going out to a crowd. There are so many kids today with peanut allergies ... and it's not only a problem if they eat it! If they are around any other people eating peanutbutter, and those people touch the child or something the allergic child will touch .. say pouring a drink or touching the back of a chair or really anything, the child could break out or their throat could close up. It is very serious and even fatal.
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