Cake Auction!

I recently participated in a cake auction.  Don't know what it is?  Neither did I!  My son's Cub Scout Pack uses this as a fundraiser.  We all make a cake and then get together and auction them off.  Pretty simple.  Tons of fun!  

We began by perusing pinterest.  Of course, my son wanted anything with a "poop" theme but I finally got him out of it by showing him different, yet equally "cool" ideas.  We finally agreed on this one.  I needed something that could be done fairly quickly and still come out pretty cool.  If you didn't notice, the link was in a foreign language.  I suppose I could have translated it via google, but I figured I knew how it was made anyway, so here is my super fast version of the "pigs in the puddle" cake!

Supplies:

Box of cake (any kind)

Frosting (for filling between layers)

10oz semisweet chocolate chips

2/3 cup heavy whipping cream

Kit kats

Ribbon

Fondant (I found some at my local grocery store!)

Food coloring (for the pink)

What I did:

1. Make 2 round cakes according to directions on box. (or use your own recipe to make two rounds)

2. Put a layer of frosting (or filling) on the first cake and put second cake on top.  I then frosted the whole cake- including the sides- with just the frosting.  You will make a ganache later so you may be able to skip this step but I figured I had enough frosting anyway so why not?

3. Then, open up your kit kats and make your piggies.  To make the piggies, I just eyeballed it and took a chunk of purchased fondant and added some red food coloring and played with it for awhile in order to get it all pink and made several balls.  We used a toothpick for the eyes, belly buttons and the butts.  The floating pig is made with a ball for the head, a ball for the belly and then 4 little balls for the arms and legs.  

4.  To make your ganache, put 2/3 cup heavy cream in sauce pan and slowly bring to a boil, stirring constantly.  Pour the hot cream over the chocolate chips and whisk until melted completely.  (I gotta say that my chips did not melt completely so I stuck it in the microwave for 1 minute-fabulous) 

5.  Then I poured some of the ganache over the cake and spread it out and on to the sides.  Put the remainder aside while you construct the kitkat barrel.  After I placed the kit kats around, I tied the ribbon to hold it together.  I then added the rest of the ganache and placed my piggies where I wanted them to go.   And you’re done!

I love how the ganache adds that shiny-looks-like-mud feeling to the cake.  

I added some grass around the bottom with just a little frosting tinted green and a grass tip on the frosting bag.  Pretty simple! 

Cute little piggies in the barrel!