Anyone who rows knows how annoying the geese on the river can be; they are slow to get out of the way when you are rowing and if you don't properly protect your dock they will defecate all over it. So I was very excited yesterday when, for the first time, I hit a goose with my sweep oar while we were doing a piece (no, it did not die, I just whacked him/her on the head). I decided to make a cake to commemorate the event! On my row this morning, a goose starting honking at me in nearly the same location near Peter's Island. I like to think (s)he was the same one that I had hit and remembered to stay away this time.
I made a simple chocolate cake using the 13" circular pans and put whipped cream with chocolate chunks in the filling. The frosting was a simple butter cream frosting and the goose neck was made of melted dark and white chocolate piped onto parchment paper. Since it is hot, I let the chocolate solidify in the fridge. I used the same method for the oar, but added blue food coloring to the white chocolate. The consistency of the white chocolate got a bit funny and stiff when I added the food coloring, but if worked well enough to to the second half of the oar blade.
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