Mini Doctor Who Chocolate Dalek Cakes

By á-708

Ingredients

• 1 stick of butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
• 1 cup light brown soft sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 1/2 cup ground almonds
• 1 ⁄2 tsp baking soda
• 5 tbsp cocoa, plus a little extra for decorating
• 1/2 cup milk
• TO DECORATE
• 4 oz bar dark chocolate, chopped
• 4 oz bar milk chocolate, chopped
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 6 marshmallows
• 1 – 2 cups chocolate drops
• few thin sticks licorice or Japanese chocolate pocky sticks

Details

Servings 6
Preparation time 35mins
Cooking time 35mins
Adapted from doctorwho.bbcamerica.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Heat oven to 350F. Grease and line the bases of 6 dariole moulds or individual metal pudding basins with baking parchment or grease-proof paper. Put the butter, sugar, egg, flour, ground almonds, bicarbonate, cocoa and milk in a mixing bowl. Beat together until lump-free. Divide between the tins then bake for 20-25 mins until risen and a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool for 15 mins, then remove from tins and cool completely – upside-down.

2. Mix the two chocolates in a heatproof bowl. Heat the cream to just below boiling point, then pour over the chocolate and stir together until melted and smooth. Chill until thick enough to spread.

3. Use a small dot icing to stick a marshmallow to the top of each cake. Completely ice all the marshmallow-topped cakes. Dot with chocolate drops to look like the outside of a dalek, and add small sticks of licorice or pocky sticks to be the guns, arms and eye-sticks.