Drip Cake with Easy Blue Drips
I was asked to make a drip cake by a client who had seen a similar cake on an advertisement outside a local coffee shop. The cake was a drip cake, nothing major there, except that the drips were baby blue There are so many ways of doing drips, "runny icing", white ganache, white chocolate and I am sure there are more but making pale blue can be tricky. I have tried the runny icing effect (water and icing sugar) but this tends to me not give the best effect. I've also tried white ganache, but the best method for me is using chocolate. White chocolate is fine if its left natural or if its painted, but to get the pale blue colour I needed to add a blue colouring. I am a novice at chocolate work, learning slowly, but I know normal paste colours don't mix with chocolate, causing the chocolate to go hard, you can buy chocolate colouring which I have used but this doesn't seem to give the bright / vibrant colours I want. I also found out that you can add dusting powde...