Welcome to How To Cook That
I am Ann Reardon
This week we have a special edition because it is Dr Who week here on youtube.
The BBC invited me and a group of you tubers to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of
Doctor Who on Nov 23.
So in todays episode I am going to show you how to make these mini cookie daleks and then
I will go back in time and give you an overview of how to make a big detailed dalek cake that
contains over 4 kilos of chocolate.
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And to make these super easy cute mini daleks take a milk arrowroot biscuit and cut off
the end and then add some chocolate buttercream then one, two three oreos on top.
Some more buttercream and then a chocolate marshmallow biscuit on top of that.
Smooth around the dalek body using buttercream and then add silver soft sugar pearls, you
can get these at the supermarket here and probably cake decorating stores elsewhere.
And then add those one at a time all around the outside for the sensor globes.
Using some melted chocolate pipe some into the shapes of the lights, the manipulator
arm and the blast gun.
There have been many different types of daleks.
The current doctor Matt Smith met all of them in the dalek asylum.
Matt has been playing the doctor for nearly five years and is the youngest actor to have
held the role.
In a christmas special this year Matt Smith will regenerate into a new doctor played by
Peter Capaldi.
One of the unique things about this long running sci fi series is that if a doctor gets too
old, or is mortally wounded then they can regenerate or transform into a new physical
appearance and usually they have a bit of a different personality as well.
This will be the 11th time this has happened in the series which will make Peter Capaldi
the 12th doctor.
Stick your chocolate blast gun and manipulator arm into place.
And you have a mini dalek.
For the giant dalek cake Firstly - Cut out your template, which is
available on the website howtocookthat.net I'll put a link in the description just below
this video And then step two: Make all of your chocolate
details like the flat panels and the sensor rings and the sensor globes.
On this cake all the sensor globes are handmade chocolates filled with thick caramel.
Step three: We need to make the fondant details.
The manipulator arm, blast gun and ears all need to be made ahead of time so they can
dry out so they will hold their shape.
If you need the detailed information on how to make all of this cake then there is a longer
video on the channel and I will link to that in the description below as well.
Step four: Make you cakes and your frosting I am using a rich chocolate mud cake and a
mixture of ganache and chocolate buttercream for my frosting.
And then step five: Use the template to cut out the cake, smother it in frosting, add
the next layer of the cake and continue to stack them up like that until you have got
to the section just before the top goes on.
Wrap that middle section in black fondant and add you rings.
And then it is time to decorate the rest of the cake.
Cover the dome of the dalek in frosting and cover it in fondant around and then add that
to the top.
Then cover the whole dalek body in frosting, add a strip of fondant around the fender at
the base.
Then add your chocolate armour one piece at a time around the cake.
Drape some fondant around the middle section and then trim it to size.
Add your blast gun to the right hand side of the dalek and then your manipulator arm
onto the left side of the cake.
Add the gold rectangles around the middle section.
Dust your sense globes with gold luster dust and put all 56 of them into place on the cake.
Add the lights onto each side of the head with the cage over the top.
Then lastly add the eye to the top of the cake and your dalek is done.
Thanks for watching this special Dr Who week addition of how to cook that, subscribe for
more cakes, desserts and chocolate creations or click on the link to see the full dalek
cake tutorial.
You can check out some of the other Dr Who week videos by clicking on link to go to the
playlist.
Have a great week I'll see you Friday.
[music: doctor who tribute composed by Jon Bruno for howtocookthat]