Dalek Chocolate Cake
All the cool chocabloggers aren’t satisfied with Death by Chocolate. These days we demand Extermination by Chocolate.
With the absence of 15inch tall chocolate Daleks in the shops, here’s one I prepared earlier.
There are two possible methods to follow with regard to this recipe; one. Read the following instructions or two. buy as many chocolate items as you can carry home in a large family estate car and simply make it up as you go along.
Ingredients
- Two 8 inch chocolate sandwich cakes (recipe here)
- Two Chocolate swiss rolls
- McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes
- At least 400g of milk chocolate. (buy more, you can never have too much chocolate)
- 100g bar of plain chocolate
- 100g bar of white chocolate
(you won’t need the full 100g, but hey..) - Cadbury Flake*
- Cadbury Chocolate Fingers*
- Cadbury chocolate buttons*
- Smarties*
- Large box Maltesers
* You will require only a few of each of the above. I bought multi-packs, just in case.
Method
Melt the chocolate in a dish over a pan of simmering water (take care kids!)
Cut about 1inch from around one of the chocolate cakes. Try to hold the knife at an angle so that the cake tapers, getting thinner toward the top
Now, stick the smaller cake on to the top of the uncut one. 
Anticipating a large and heavy cake I erred on the side of caution and used a large dollop of the melted chocolate to sandwich these together.
Cut one of the chocolate swiss rolls in half. Do the same with second swiss roll, and using just one of the halves, cut it in half length ways. Stick these four pieces together using melted chocolate (see photo)
Place the swiss rolls on top of the cake using, yes you’ve guessed it, melted chocolate, place a single piece of swiss roll on top of this and then start to cover the entire cake in melted chocolate. If you have the time, do this in layers, allowing one layer of melted chocolate to set before adding the next, and the next… I didn’t have the time so I poured the entire ½ thick chocolate on in one go. This proved rather frustrating as it continually gloops to the base.
Before the chocolate sets completely (I was slightly insane by this point) start decorating the cake to give it it’s Dalek features.
Place Maltesers in columns on the bottom half of the cake to form the skirt. Do Daleks wear skirts?
Use half a Cadbury Flake and chocolate fingers to make the sticky-out-bits, and put a chocolate button on the ends (using the good ol’ tried ‘n’ tested melted chocolate method)
Stack three Jaffa Cakes on top of the cake, followed by two stacks of three chocolate buttons. Add a Smartie to the top of the buttons.
Place a band of white chocolate squares around the neck. You could of course pipe some melted white chocolate to create a similar effect but time was running out for me; birthday boy was about to come home from school and there I was, covered in chocolate and I hadn’t even started on the proper party food yet.
Using melted plain chocolate, pipe details around the Dalek; stripes down the Jaffa cakes, and lines between the Malteser columns for eg. I made an effort to do this, but I know you can do better.
Leave to set in a cool place, then…
Exterminate!… exterminate!…
That is SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(cool)
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This is so ridiculously cool. I’m going to make a vague attempt at doing this for my dad on Father’s Day. Thanks so much for sharing.
am attempting to make this tomoro for my husbands birthday! think ill wait for the choc to set then carve some grooves into it for some of the detailing. thanks for such a cool idea!
Now all you need is a tape recorder that automatically says
“EXTERMINATE!!”
every few minutes. I had one that said it once every hour.
It went dead (or so I thought) and I was up at, what was it, like midnight. And it went off. Like a really loud Exterminate and then a dying screech, I got so freaked out I peed myself!!
I think your Dalek cake looks fantastic. My daughter is having a party on Saturday and I’m going to have a go at making one for her. I just hope it looks as good as yours. Thanks for sharing such a great idea.
Made this for my boyfriend’s 30th birthday, he loved it as did all our friends, it tastes very chocolatey and yummy and is also lots of fun to make without much difficulty. Thank you very much for posting it!
So cool! Even The Doctor would eat it!
I WILL DIE JUST FOR CAKE IM ONLY 11
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Fandomestic: 10 Brilliant Doctor Who-Themed Cakes
that is awsome
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OMG!!! U can’t get any better. Doctor Who and chocolate cake (YUM)! THE best thing EVA!!!!!!!!!!
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I will be making this today in readiness for my sons 10th birthday party tomorrow…. I hope it looks a sfabulous as your one!
wow that cake looks amazing i would love to try it does it taste yummy
I’m having this for my birthday!!!!Oh yeah!!!!
This is just perfect! I asked my son today what cake would you like for ur bday and oh yes he said he wanted a dalek cake..i was thinking of popping to asda and cheating until i saw this…its fantastic…im going to try my best and make it, of course ive asked my friend to help..thanx for posting this, i cant wait to try and make it.
I totally agree with you
Very interesting recipe! Ive been searching the internet for a good recipe for Red Velvet cake without the bottle of red dye!!! Love the beet addition to this cake,
i love choclate………………………….:)
I made this for some of my university friends and they absolutely loved it – it looked surprisingly good too! Thanks so much for the recipe – what a fantastic idea!
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to bad i am FAT!
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i like this cake !
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I made a Dalek birthday cake for my son, it’s not quite the same as yours, you can see it on my site http://chocolate-cake-recipe.org.uk/
He was very happy with it!
Thanks for sharing yours :-)
You could stick a wooden skewer (s) down inside the fattest part of the cake to hold it together so it doesn’t fall over. Being very careful when you cut the cake……
OMG! If you used a pudding bowl to cook the main part of the cake ( you would only need one cake mix), and only one swiss roll, it would be much better. It would stand up straighter ( I have had to put 4 wooden skewers in this one to hold it all upright and together) also for the strips between the maltesers you could use licorice straps……
I would love to make Hungarian Kurtosh. Do you have a recipe and where can I buy the tubes to bake it in?
wow i love doctor who and you made the next best thing the cake is so appealing and i have no chocolate in the house try making a tardis cake lol
LOL I LOVE IT THANKS A CHOCOLATE BAR FOR THE RECIPE
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