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The Ugly Duckling

by Rhiannon Howe @Razzle · submitted Aug 4, 2011 · 2011 contest

The Ugly Duckling cake by Rhiannon Howe

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This is my first ever attempt at a threadcake and lawd, it was fun!

I baked a chocolate fudge cake (fairly dense) and then mixed in vanilla buttercream and smooshed it up into cake balls, which I squished into the right shapes using the side of a box of icing sugar. I froze them for an hour, then dipped the three with the rounded tops into white chocolate and the square boy into milk chocolate.

I put the black eyes on with the end of a chopstick (melted chocolate) and the white eyes were teeny tiny bits of teeny tiny marshmallows.

I thought they looked pretty cute and I tried propping them up on wee bits of card to get a 'floaty' effect. They tasted bloomin' lovely, and all!

Onward and upward, I'm going to do something needlessly complicated next time!

-Rhiannon. xx