If you still dont know what to make for Valentines Day, then how about making some sweet and delicious cake bite treats? I have made these pretty Valentine cake bites today.
I had some chocolate cake from the Pingu Christening cake in my freezer. Together with some chocolate ganache I rolled the crumbled cake into bite size treats. Remember when you make the cake bites, not to make them too big.
I could have used a chocolate coating on the cake bites but I just love the look of poured fondant icing on cakes. Poured fondant icing is time consuming to work with. So make sure that you dont rush while making them.
When I cover cake bites with poured fondant icing I prefer to use the same method as when I cover Petit Fours. Remember to give the fondant icing more color when you use a dark cake and less color (if you like) for “white” cake. I used a pink pale color and it barely shows on the photos. Next time I will remember to give it more color.
I piped a royal icing “swirl” and placed a pink gum paste heart on top. I used lustre dust on the hearts aswell for extra shimmer.
Happy Caking!
Louise
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29 comments
torteedesign says:
Feb 11, 2011
What a wonderful sweets, but above all photos, as usually!!
Misbah says:
Feb 11, 2011
sweet and yummy.
Anika says:
Feb 11, 2011
They look perfect! Love the pastel colours ♥
Anonymous says:
Feb 10, 2011
I know, but unfortunately that’s too late. They are all gone
Clara Lourdes Peña Castro says:
Feb 10, 2011
muy bellos
Suzie says:
Feb 10, 2011
Beautiful Louise! How long do these take to make?
Anonymous says:
Feb 10, 2011
The small cake bites do not take long to do. It’s the covering with the poured fondant that takes long time. It’s great if you have a small wire rack with a tray underneath to collect the excess PF. I give mine two coatings of poured fondant so a lot of poured fondant is needed. I had to scrape the excess PF back into the bowl, because I was short on PF. So it did take more time than normal. Because you can’t cover all in one go.
oatc says:
Feb 10, 2011
Beautiful! If I don’t have time to do the time consuming fondant, can you please suggest how else I can cover it and still keep the royal icing “swirl” to make it look beautiful? thanks
Anonymous says:
Feb 10, 2011
You can dip them in colored chocolate like Merkens or candy melts. You can see here how I do it with some marzipan Christmas treats: http://www.cakejournal.com/archives/how-to-make-marzipan-christmas-bites
sharonc says:
Feb 10, 2011
I am having trouble getting the right proportion of cake to ganache/frosting correct. Either they are too dry and won’t hold together or to wet. Is there a precise formula to make the cake balls?
Anonymous says:
Feb 10, 2011
Maybe there are, but to be honest I just take the amount of cake that I need and then add the ganache/frosting until it has the consistency I like. Have you looked at Bakerella’s
site? I’m sure that she have something on how much of each you would need.