[b]Engagement Ring Chocolate Box Cake Topper[/b]
 
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Serves: 1 cake Topper
Ingredients
  • 1 recipe Vanilla Cake colored pink *you only need 1 cupcake for each box though! So you may want to HALVE the recipe or just have some extra cupcakes to go along side!
  • 1 small piece of fondant mixed with tylose powder to get it stiff. *You literally need 1 small piece the size of a quarter
  • 1 Bag Ghirardellli Unsweetened (dairy free) Chocolate Squares *you need about 8-10 squares
  • Dark chocolate for gluing the pieces I use King David dairy free non tempering chocolate
  • Hard Candy recipe for the Diamonds
  • Granulated Sugar 1¼ cup (250g)
  • Water 3 Tablespoons (90ml)
  • Glucose (or corn syrup) ¼ cup (80g)
Instructions
  1. Watch video tutorial for step by step instructions
  2. For the hard candy diamonds you will need the Wilton Jewelry Silicon Mold *link above in blog post
  3. Cook the sugar, water & glucose (or corn syrup) over medium to high heat while stirring constantly.
  4. Once it boil stops stirring and insert a candy thermometer and continue cooking to 300°F
  5. Once it reaches 300°F remove from the heat and pour into a heat proof Pyrex cup
  6. Allow it took cool down for 2 minutes then pour into the silicone mold (You will have extra, keep it aside, over a heated pot of water for when you have to glue the diamond to the fondant ring
  7. Follow along with the video tutorial for how to assemble
Recipe by Gretchen's Vegan Bakery at https://www.gretchensveganbakery.com/engagement-ring-chocolate-box-cake-topper/