Pairs well with Heely Shoe Chocolate Cake with Swiss Buttercream
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Heely Shoe Chocolate Cake with Swiss Buttercream
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A sculpted chocolate cake designed to look like a Heely shoe, featuring chocolate cake layers filled and covered with Swiss buttercream, finished with fondant decorations including shoelaces and shoe details.
00:45:00 total
Serves 8
medium
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Ingredients
- chocolate cake layers - watch the video to see (prepared chocolate cake layers for stacking)
- Swiss buttercream - watch the video to see (for filling and crumb coating the cake)
- fondant - watch the video to see (for covering the cake and making shoe decorations)
- white food coloring - a small amount (used to trace stitch impressions on fondant)
- Airheads candy - watch the video to see (used to cover fondant shoelaces)
- water - a small amount (used to brush on fondant pieces to help them stick)
Instructions
- Prepare and stack cake layers: Bake chocolate cake layers and fill them with Swiss buttercream. Stack the layers and chill the cake.
- Sculpt the cake: Sculpt the chilled cake to match the Heely shoe template.
- Crumb coat the cake: Apply a crumb coat of Swiss buttercream over the entire cake and chill again.
- Cover cake with fondant: Roll out fondant and cover the cake, trimming off the excess fondant.
- Add stitch details: Use white food coloring and a tool to trace stitch impressions on the fondant.
- Make shoe decorations: Create shoelaces and eyelets from fondant; cover shoelaces with Airheads candy and cut in half.
- Attach shoe strips and decorations: Cut thick and thin fondant strips for shoe edging. Brush water on cake and attach strips, eyelets, and shoelaces.
- Add logos and final details: Pipe icing for logos on heel and top of shoe, and add 'Heelys' text on the side.
