Rum truffle cake?

[Mark A]

Hi,

My Mum's birthday is coming up and I am going to make her a cake. She loves rum truffles and I had an idea to make a giant rum truffle as a cake.

I have never made them before and am not sure it would work as a cake, but wondered if anyone has a better idea of if it is feasible?

Also if anyone has a recipe that would be great!

Would a chocolate rum cake as the base and then use the rum truffle mixture as the icing work?

http://blog.boden.co.uk/mary-berrys-chocolate-rum-cake/
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/17430/chocolate-rum-truffles.aspx

Thanks

 

[malolo]

I'd imagine a whole cake made out of rum truffle would be too moist to really hold up. Eating a slice would probably be pretty hard going too.

Why not make a chocolate cake with a rum butter cream filling/frosting and make rum truffle balls to put on top as decoration?

 

[Mark A]

Thanks, yeah I was thinking that might be the case, but most of the recipes I found use cake crumbs as an ingredient so wasn't sure as I was a kid last time i had one and remembered them being quite light for some reason.

The rum chocolate cake recipe above seems perfect. I'll be making it spherical and then covering it in chocolate sprinkles so it looks like a rum truffle, so I think some sort of rum truffle/buttercream icing hybrid is in order.