Kunzle
Memories of Kunzle cake recipe
No doubt someone owns the intellectual property rights to Kunzle cakes, the following is in no way intended to infringe upon them. The only Kunzle cakes you can eat are the ones you buy from the owners of the name.
I remember eating Kunzle cakes "Showboats" in the 1960's. A thick chocolate shell, containing cake, topped with butter cream and a small chocolate, there was a round one, a square one, organge and chocolate cream.
Unlike a 1966 car, examples of which you may still encounter, you will not find any 1960's Kunzle cakes, and even if you did and were allowed to eat them, they'd not taste like they did in 1966. Short of time travel all that is available is someone's idea of what the cakes were like.
Forty years later this is how to make a memory of a "Kunzle" cake. Click the pictures to view full size.
First melt plain chocolate and spread around paper cup cake cases. Silicone cup cake cases work well too. Leave for the chocolate to set and finally peel off the case, to produce a chocolate shell.
Bake small sponge cake buns. It is good if these are slightly smaller than the chocolate shells produced above. For example using two size of paper cup cake cases or silicone and paper cases. Insert the cake into the chocolate shell.
Make butter cream, flavour with chocolate, cofee or a mixture of both.
Top off the cake in the shell with butter cream.
Add a small chocolate to the cake, could be a chocolate drop made from spare melted chocolate, or a slice of chocolate truffle.
Sit back, turn on Radio Caroline, listen to a new Beatles song, it's 1966.
Real Kunzle cakes had smooth chocolate shells the above have a crinkly edge from the cup cake cases.
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