Have you ever wanted to create your very own DIY gravity cake? The perfect thing about it is just how versatile it is. Choose from a round cake, turn it into a number, or go with any shape you like. Chuck enough chocolates on and it’s a pretty wow-worthy result. Lauren shares how she pulled together this DIY gravity cake for her Pokemon loving son’s 8th birthday.
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Ingredients:
- 2 x vanilla mudcakes from Woolworths
- 2 x chocolate mudcakes from Woolworths
- Cadbury fingers
- Buttercream icing
- Plastic straw
- Pokemon figurines (shop similar here)
DIY Gravity Cake Method
- Put all four cakes in the freezer for 20 minutes.
- Trim the cakes to size and use a cup to trace and cut out the centre. Place on cake board.
- Crumb coat with buttercream and put them back in the freezer for a further 20 minutes.
- Take them out, buttercream them again and stack on top of each other.
- Decorate with Cadbury fingers around the outside and inside edge.
- Decorate the top with whatever you like! Lauren used twirl bites, maltesers and m&ms and Pokémon figurines.
- Now for the fun part: creating the gravity (the perfect cake topper)! Melt chocolate over a saucepan.
- Grab a plastic straw and dip maltesers into the melted chocolate and stick them to the straw.
Note: do this final step in stages, so you allow time for the chocolate to set so the maltesers don’t slide off.
- Once the straw is covered, thread chop sticks through the straw for stability and then push it into the cake and voila.
Your very own DIY gravity cake!
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