Anne Reeden from "How to Cook That" provides a tutorial on creating a Minecraft-themed cake. The tutorial includes making various cake components, such as grass blocks, dirt blocks, wooden logs, and stone blocks, using chocolate and molds. The cake is built in layers, with a gravel path, trees, and buildings. The tutorial also covers making Minecraft characters, including Steve, a sheep, and a creeper, using cake and chocolate. The finished cake is a 3D Minecraft village.
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1. The tutorial is on how to make a Minecraft village cake.
2. The cake requires 3 trays of chocolate cake and 2 batches of ganache mixed with buttercream.
3. The recipes for the cake and ganache are available on the howtocookthat.net website.
4. To make grass blocks, fill a mini ice cube tray with green sprinkles and pipe chocolate into each cube.
5. To make plant blocks, cut a jelly bean into quarters and make a slit down the middle to create two little leaves.
6. To make wooden logs, fill a mold with dark chocolate and tap out the excess to create a lining of chocolate around the edge.
7. To make stone and gravel blocks, color white chocolate gray and add chopped white chocolate to create a speckled effect.
8. The cake is built in layers, with each layer consisting of a thin layer of cake and frosting.
9. The gravel path is created by cutting out a section on the bottom level of the cake and adding gravel blocks.
10. The grass blocks are attached to the cake using a little frosting underneath.
11. To make trees, use melted chocolate to build a tower of logs and add a leafy top made from green-colored chocolate.
12. To make a creeper, trim down green blocks to make them skinnier and add feet and a head using melted green chocolate.
13. To make Steve, cut a log block down sideways to create his face and hair, and add a T-shirt and pants made from blue blocks.
14. To make a sheep, cut out slices of a plank block and a white block to create the body and head.
15. The cake can be customized with different buildings, trees, and characters.
16. Leftover bricks can be used as party favors or sold as Minecraft blocks.