Chocolate Day in Cooking Camp

Chocolate Cabbage Cake – made by my camp kids

What a day to be working with chocolate. It was really hot in class today. Temps here are around 90, and the camp is in a kitchen with no air conditioning. I knew it would be challenging, but the kids managed to do a great job. They dipped all sorts of goodies in chocolate, but the hit of the day was the chocolate cabbage cake. I invited the parents to come to pick the kids up early, so they could get pics of their kids with the cake.

The cake is actually all chocolate, it just looks like a head of cabbage. We started with two chocolate cakes, baked in bowls. We also used a chocolate buttercream to frost it. When frosted together- they become a round cake. Then we used cabbage leaves and melted chocolate to create the magic. The leaves are brushed with melted chocolate and put in the fridge to harden. We carefully peeled away the cabbage leaves. Now we had a whole bunch of chocolate “leaves”. Each of the kids got a chance to add them to the cake. It was a lot of fun. Here are some more pics from camp. Kids range in age from 6-12. I was so proud of how well they worked together to make the cabbage cake so special.

Brushing on the chocolate

Some leaves were pretty big

Starting to place the leaves on the cake

Almost done

The Finished Cake