Molly wanted a Hamburger Cake for her birthday. We trolled around the Internet and looked at lots of photos and ideas. This is what we came up with. It might look like something difficult but let me be the first to tell you-I am not much of a baker and if I can put this together anyone can! I don’t have any photos of the cake in progress.

I bought 2 cake mixes-1 yellow and one chocolate. I made the chocolate in a 8×8 brownie pan-square patty like Wendy’s burgers!

I made 2— 8 inch rounds out of the yellow cake but filled one with more of the batter (bottom bun smaller-top bun larger.)

After they cooled I trimmed the patty to make it nice and flat as well as trimming the bottom bun. Then I took the extra chocolate cake and added it to the top of the top yellow cake bun to make it more dome like. Make sense?

I bought 3 cans of frosting 1 chocolate and 2 white

We took some frosting out  and divided it into 3 bowls for condiments and added food coloring –red for ketchup, green for lettuce and yellow for mustard. You don’t need much. After you reach the desired color put each into a plastic bag and squeeze down to one bottom corner. set aside.

Take more white frosting into a bowl and add color to look like American cheese—use this to frost graham crackers to look like cheese slices on the burger.

Take the other can of white frosting and make it bun colored-we added a bit of the chocolate frosting for some color plus some food coloring.

Now to put it together

bottom bun cake first with burger patty (chocolate cake) next. Frost the chocolate cake with the chocolate frosting-making the edges look burgery!

 To that we put the graham crackers already frosted on the edges of the burger cake-hanging over a bit. We didn’t go all the way into the middle of the burger with these I wanted it to stay stable and thought this might make it tippy and too sweet. We did use more of the cheese frosting between the graham crackers and on the edges to look like melting cheese.

Then top with top bun. Use the bun frosting to glue the dome shape together. Try to smooth the frosting out as much as possible. Now get your condiment frosting’s and cut a tiny bit off the corner (a little larger for lettuce) and pipe lettuce around the bottom edge and squeeze squiggly ketchup and mustard on the cheese frosting.

We added a few slivered almonds on the top for seseme seeds.

This really wasn’t too hard. And it was surprisingly good. I thought it was going to be way too sweet-but it wasn’t. It was a little hard to cut but no one seemed to mind!

Raw Chocolate Cupcakes with Raw Chocolate Frosting

These were so rich and tasty!!! The photo does not do them justice. I am still learning indoor lighting obviously.

The cupcake recipe came from here. She has many more delicious desserts that I can’t wait to try!! But I do want to know about the safety of those silicone cupcake liners. ANybody have any info on them?

Here is the recipe:

1 cup walnuts

5 dates

Process these in the food processor and then add the following and process again

1/8 cup raw cocoa

1 t. coconut oil

1 t. vanilla

1/2 t. almond extract

1/4 t. salt

Form into balls and drop and mold into cupcake pan.

I did 1 and 1/2 recipes and it made 24 mini cupcakes. Which are just the right size for these rich treats.

Again-sorry for the bad photo!!

For the frosting I loosely followed a recipe and added some extras.

1 T raw cocoa

1T coconut butter (I used solid oil)

dash of salt

squirt of vanilla

some maple syrup to thin it out and sweeten it up

some raw dry coconut to thiken it to desired consistancy

Again I did 1 1/2 this frosting recipe.

I know some people avoid cocnut oil because of the saturated fats but it is very digestible and the body quickly metabolizes it for energy. According to “RAWSOME” :  “Coconut oil contains both short and medium chain fatty acid. In lab tests, the med. chain fatty acids have shown effective against flu, measels, sinusitis, food poisining, urinary tract infections, hepatitis c, and candida. Coconut oil is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and antiprotozoal. It helps stimulate thyroid, normalize blood sugar levels, decrease seizures and relieve chronic fatigue.”

Sounds good to me!

If you want to add a raw recipe to this weeks Quarter recipe, leave a comment here with a link to your post containing your raw recipe! Come on play along!!!