Antique Radio Cake

Name: Antique Radio Cake
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 15
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 28 grams white baking chocolate; 6 Tbsps baking cocoa; 177 milliliters butter, softened; 946 milliliters confectioners sugar; 15 servings Black or brown paste food coloring; 1 package German chocolate cake mix (regular size); 3 teaspoons instant coffee granules, divided; 2 miniature peanut butter cups; 5 Pastry tips—# round and #16 star; 15 servings Graph paper; 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 59 milliliters water; 15 servings Bue gift wrap to cover board

One portion of this dish contains about 3g of protein, 14g of fat, and a total of 384 calories. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 15. If you have confectioners' sugar, peanut butter cups, water, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour.

Instructions

Prepare cake batter according to package directions, adding 2 teaspoons coffee granules.

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Instant Coffee

Pour into three greased and floured baking pans, two 8-in. square and one 8-in. round.

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Baking Pan

Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Cool cakes for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

Cut round cake in half, forming two semi-circles.

For frosting, cream butter and sugar in a bowl.

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Frosting

Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Bowl

Add cocoa, vanilla and salt. Dissolve the remaining coffee granules in water; add enough to the creamed mixture to achieve desired spreading consistency.

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Instant Coffee

Vanilla

Cocoa Powder

Water

Salt

Place one square cake on the covered board.

Place the cut edge of a semi-circle cake touching one side of square cake. Frost the top of both cakes. Stack remaining square and semicircle cakes on top. Frost the top and sides smoothly. Set remaining frosting aside.

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Frosting

Unwrap peanut butter cups.

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Peanut Butter Cups

Place each cup about 1-1/2-in. from the bottom and sides of cake for radio dials as shown in photo.

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt white chocolate.

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White Chocolate

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Microwave

Bowl

Spread on waxed paper into a rectangle about 6 in. x 1-1/2 in. x 1/16 in.

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Spread

Let harden for 5 minutes. Using a sharp knife, cut into a 5-in. x 1-in. rectangle.

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Knife

When white chocolate is totally set, use a toothpick dipped into brown or black paste food coloring to write "AM" and "FM" as shown in photo.

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White Chocolate

Food Color

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Toothpicks

Add station marks in same way.

Place chocolate rectangle 1 inch above the dials.

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Chocolate

Melt chocolate chips and place in a small plastic bag.

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Chocolate Chips

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Ziploc Bags

Place a piece of waxed paper over graph paper.

Cut a small hole in the corner of the bag.

For the radio speaker, pipe a 5-in.-wide half-circle of melted chocolate onto waxed paper. Using graph paper as a guide, pipe diagonal 1/4 in. apart. Repeat lines in the opposite direction. Refrigerate until set. Carefully remove speaker from waxed paper and place about 1 inch from top of cake.

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Chocolate

Prepare another plastic bag and insert round tip and reserved frosting. Pipe a border around the white rectangle. Insert star tip. Pipe a rope border around top and bottom edges of cake.

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Frosting

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Ziploc Bags