Chocolate Cake Bites

My intention this morning was to make Ice Cream Cakes for my nieces, and croissants for a hangover breakfast on Sunday morning for my sister, dad and me.  What came out the other end of the day was Ice Cream Cakes and experimental Chocolate Bites.

I have too many cake ideas fighting inside my head and it's starting to get a bit noisy, so the croissants were unfortunately sidelined on this occasion so I could let out some ideas.

Now, bear in mind that these aren't meant to look perfect (no, really), because they're mostly a taste/idea experiment.  I also couldn't get hold of the silicone moulds I wanted for them in time to try them out, and excitement won out over patience.

So here we have Chocolate Bites:



Chocolate Bites


There are two flavours with the same basic idea.  They're made up of chocolate sponge as the base, topped with whipped cream, coated in melted chocolate.  The variations are:

1. Choc 'n' Orange Cake Bites

• Chocolate sponge
• Drizzled with orange syrup (sugar and orange juice)
• Topped with whipped cream which is flavoured with a little orange extract and lots of orange zest
• Coated with milk chocolate
• Decorated with orange zest



Choc 'n' Orange Cake Bites


2. Choc 'n' Ginger Cake Bites

• Chocolate sponge
• Drizzled with ginger syrup (the syrup from a jar of preserved stem ginger)
• Spinkled with chopped preserved stem ginger (from the same jar)
• Topped with plain whipped cream
• Coated with dark chocolate
• Decorated with preserved stem ginger





Choc 'n' Ginger Cake Bites

You might think that as there's one less orange cake than there are ginger, that I've already taste tested one.  You'd be wrong.  That one was a fallen soldier.  Literally.  He fell off the tray when I was putting them in the fridge, cream-side down of course  :(  I hate cake waste!

So there they are, all imperfect and not at all glossy.  The intention, when I have the lovely bendy, non stick silicone tray I want, is that they'll be perfect domes of cakey goodness.  Until then homemade imperfection will just have to do.

Oh and just in case there was any doubt... cakey goodness is the best kind!