Icing the cake n trying out on chocolate drips#authormarathon

Name: Icing the cake n trying out on chocolate drips#authormarathon
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 1 kg ready cooled cake; 1 cup chilled whipping cream; 50 grams dark cooking chocolate

liz Ngugi. @cook_9934835

Kiambu.

A long journey starts with just one step and practise practise makes perfect.

liz Ngugi. @cook_9934835

Kiambu.

A long journey starts with just one step and practise practise makes perfect.

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Ingredients

1 kgready cooled cake
1 cupchilled whipping cream
50 gramsdark cooking chocolate

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Steps

1

Chill your whipping cream over night. Also chill your mixing bowl, whisk or beaters.
2

Let your cake cool completely.
3

Assemble n Weigh your ingredients.
4

Using a hand mixer or whisk, whisk your chilled whipping cream till it forms soft peaks.
5

Have an extra empty bowl to put the extra cream with cake crumbs. Also have some hot water aside for dipping the pallet knife while smoothening your cake. plus wiping cloth for drying the knife.
6

Tort your cake one or twice n apply some cream inside.
7

Cover your cake all over using whipping cream. chill it for a while after 1st coat. Remove it, continue with the second coat.
8

While chilling the cake after the 1st coat, work on your chocolate for drips. Grate the chocolate on a glass bowl, bring water to boil, put the bowl with grated chocolate on top of the boiling water. stir gently till it melts completely. put it a side for it to cool.
9

Your cake is set for the drips after 2nd or 3rd coat.
10

Using a normal spoon or tomato sauce dispenser, i used spoon, scoop some cooled melted chocolate, pour gently n slowly on top side of the cake n let it drop down.
11

Repeat this till you are done. Practise practise makes perfect...