Chocolate Log Cake House

This year Christmas I thought of making something fun in the kitchen, Logcake House using basic recipe like sponge cake, butter cream and all kind of decoration goodies that you like. If you have lots of kids coming to your party, they will be delighted as they can pull out their favorite snacks from the cake, some may like like chocolate, others may prefer wafer or cookies. Why not try it out?

Basically you need to make sponge cake and cut into the size of your choice and decorate with biscuits, chocolates or candies with your imagination.

This is what I did:

20cm square chocolate sponge cake

Ingredients
Group A
4 eggs
150g granulated sugar
60g milk
20g sponge gel (The addition of sponge gel strengthens the cake batter)

Group B
100g self cake flour
40g cocoa powder
20g milk powder (I prefer to use coffee powder as it will bring out the chocolate flavor more)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

Group C 
180g melted butter and cooled

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 180C.

2. Melt butter in microwave for 40 seconds or more and set aside to cool

3. Using electric mixer on high speed, whip group A ingredients or around 5 min until fluffy and voluminous.

4. Add Group B and mix for 1 min and lastly the melted butter for 30s until they are well mixed.

5. Pour into 20cm square pan and bake for 35-40 min until cooked. (Toothpick inserted into the  centre comes out clean). Cool in wire rack before cutting them.

Butter Cream
150g margarine
150g butter
120g icing sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder

Whisk the margarine and butter until pale. Add icing sugar and continue to whisk. Lastly add the cocoa powder and mix well. At this point your butter cream should be stiff enough to use.

Building the Log Cake House
Loacker waffle as the roof
Redondo waffle stick as the walls
Meiji Chocolate as the door
M&M chocolate as the door knob
Christmas candies to add colour to the house
Chocolate bar as chimney
(cut them into 2 pcs and then cut 45 degree on one side so they can stick to the roof)
Melted chocolate as glue
(microwave 1-2 tbsp chocolate chips for 30s and follow by 10s until all melted)

You can use any brand of your choice and let your imagination run wild in decorating them.

 

Direction
1. Cut your chocolate sponge cake into 2of 8cmx20cm and 1of 4cmx20cm width.
2. Stack the sponge cake in this order 8cm, 8cm and 4cm. Cream with butter cream prepared in between them and all the 4 sides of the house.
3. Just stick the waffle on the roof and walls and finally the front door with meiji chocolate bar.
4. Stick the chocolate bar on the roof with melted chocolate.
5. Decorate the house with candie and M&M. You can always use the melted chocolate to glue them into the house.

Finally you can place them in the fridge to set.

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