Minecraft Help!

Hi Lisa – One way to create a smooth and clean design for a Minecraft cake, is to crumb coat the cake with chocolate ganache to get very sharp corners and solid surfaces, and then to use modeling chocolate to create the squares. I find that modeling chocolate is stirdier than fondant and cuts very nicely without stretching much. Also, if you create templates to lay the squares and cut everything precisely, then the design should be extremely clean at the end.

Thanks Leyda x

I Lisa. I took the cowards way out and made the cube as a topper. I stacked bought Rice Krispie Squares and then cut multiple squares at a time by using my pink strip cutter, going one way and then the other (if that makes sense).

You probably don’t want to make one like this but it is an alternative to the cake as cube way. However you decide to do it, you will end up sick of squares – that is a fact! lol!!! :-D Good luck!! :-) x

Oh dear i know exactly how you feel. I made a minecraft about six months ago, a giant 10" and 8". I cut out a lot of my squares a few days before i planned to use them so they were nice and hard. I mixed half sugar paste and fondant and mixed with a bit of tylos and cut them out with a square cutter, i did try other ways of cutting the squares but the cutter definitely looked neater. All my squares were half an inch big, which ment they would fit each side of the cake perfectly square to square. I left some squares to cut up on the day which worked well as there were one of two spaces that were a little tight which ment they squeezed in easier as they were softer.

I think the main thing is make sure the sides of your cake are dead straight then you should be fine. Good luck :) x

I actually don’t mind minecraft cakes – all of mine have been standing figures. I think the main thing is planning. I use half inch squares just cut from fondant a few days beforehand to harden up. Definitely use ganache to crumb coat, much easier for firm straight sides and edges, and I just used edible glue to stick working from the bottom up. I find I get in a kind of rhythm and it doesn’t take as long as I think!

Wow. Thanks for all your help ladies and I love all your cakes . . . Ganache and a half inch cutter it is! Xx