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Dice Desserts

Our MOPS group has several fundraising events throughout the year. This year's first event was a "Funco Night" an fun-filled evening of Bunco playing! Because of a family commitment (Saturday before the 3rd Sunday of the month) I was unable to attend and support our group. However the lady in charge of donations posted on our FaceBook page about the need for dessert donations (they ask local area businesses to donate all the food and prizes.) I thought, this is a way I can help! So I contacted her and let her know I was interested in donating (what I hoped would be) a cute selection of cakes! She enthusiastically accepted!

I thought individual cakes would make it easy for them because they wouldn't have to worry about cutting the cake and I could make them in cute dice shapes!

Friday morning I started! I baked 1 (yellow) cake in the morning and then realized that I didn't have enough eggs for my second cake! So off to the store I went! By early afternoon my second cake (confetti) was in the oven and my first cake had been sliced and placed in the freezer for an hour to freeze the crumbs to the cake.

Then the REAL work started! I have iced "sculpted" cakes before and didn't really think this would be all that different. WRONG-OH! In order for the icing to actually stick to the cake it had to be the PERFECT consistency (I found this out by batch 2.) 
After removing the cakes from the freezer I had to keep them in the refrigerator until I was ready for them. 

I would take 1 "block" out place it on an inverted cupcake wrapper and ice all 5 sides (as smoothly as possible) and then replace it to the "fridge" for it to "crust".
This was a tedious process...
I had 5 done before I had to leave for a previous engagement Friday evening. (The Reds game which was a lot of fun but FREEZING cold!)

I was up bright and early the next morning and back at it! Brake for breakfast (and to buy more powdered sugar) and then I worked for hours!  Here was my process:
Ice, 
chill (filling every available space in fridge, allowing 10 chilling cakes at a time),
Remove from fridge and smooth
Set to the side

My goal was to be completely done at 2. 
I finished this process at 2! :)

Next it was time to start the dots!
I pulled our my inspiration from our Yahtzee! game and started in!

I made 4 cakes of each type (yellow and confetti) with the same dot sequence (1 on top, 2,3,5, and 4 on the sides). This process was quick and painless and I was done in 1/2 hour! 
Then I took them all to church! Transportation is always the most nerve-racking part of the entire thing!

But they made it and were a HUGE hit!
However I think I won't offer individual cakes ever again unless they are cupcakes. 
(Cupcakes with Fondant dice would have been cute too! and EASIER! haha! Live and Learn!)


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the third said…
Well done! Those are quite fun!
September 27, 2011 at 7:13 AM
Unknown said…
Love this idea! Can't wait to try it for bunco night =)
January 11, 2013 at 6:37 AM
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