Make a Domokun Cake

Intro: Make a Domokun Cake

We all love Domokun. But wouldn't Domokun be better if we could eat him? And he was made out of chocolate? I agree. Here are instructions on how to make a Domokun cake of your very own.

STEP 1: Get a Reference Image

You need to know what Domokun looks like in order to make a cake version of him/her/it. This was my reference image that I stole off of Google Images. Isn't he a cuddly looking beast?

STEP 2: Gather Weapons and Ammo!

Now that we have an image that we are going to try to replicate, we must get supplies. You need lots of ingredients to make a cake of this size. But on the bright side, you can probably feed 20 hungry people with this cake, maybe 30 not-so-hungry people. I personally ate around two thirds of mine, but it took me five days to do it. This might not sound like a lot of cake based off of that, but I eat cake like nobody's business.

I used the following recipe for the cake and the frosting, which was quite tasty: http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipes/detail.asp?id=184&page=1&per=10&keyword=perfectly

As you can see, that recipe only makes one 9" x 13" cake. I tripled my recipe for the cake and doubled the frosting recipe.

You'll need the following supplies:
-5 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (cake flour might work too)
-6 cups sugar
-6 cups powdered sugar (AKA confectioner's sugar)
-3 7/12 (yes, seven twelfths) cups cocoa powder (I used Hershey's since it's their recipe)
-3 2/3 cups whole milk (just buy a quart)
-1 cups unsalted butter (honestly, who buys salted butter? Only suckers, that's who!)
-6 eggs
-1 1/2 cups vegetable oil (I used soybean oil)
-8 teaspoons vanilla (You can buy a quart of pure vanilla at Smart & Final for 12 or 13 bucks, which absolutely dominates regular supermarkets like Safeway in price. So buy it from Smart & Final or some discount bulk store)
-4 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
-4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
-1 tablespoon salt
-3 cups boiling water (apparently stores don't sell boiling water, they expect me to make it myself...sigh)
-A 9" x 13" straight sided cake pan (two would be better, three would be best...it's a big cake)

The following items are somewhat negotiable, you need something to use for the eyes, the red mouth background and the teeth. I used the following, feel free to substitute.
-Chocolate eyeballs (I used two See's candy caramel wafer things. Any type of circular chocolate truffle type thing will work wonderfully)
-White candies that you can cut to form teeth
-Raspberries

STEP 3: Start Following the Recipe

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Do it now. Seriously. Go.

Grease your pans and then flour them. If you don't do this you will be very sorry later. I have no pictures of me doing this step. I was very sorry later. Do it or you will end up with the eternal question, "How do I remove a cake from a sheet cake pan without breaking it into a million pieces?" Indeed.

Throw a pot on the stove and put like 5 cups of water in it. No need to measure, but make sure it's at least 4 cups and not more than 5 or 6 cups. Cover the pot with a lid and turn on the fire! Or if you have an electric stove, do the less exciting sounding turn on the resistor!

STEP 4: Mix the Dry Ingredients

This is standard baking here. You mix your dries. Later you mix your wets. Then you combine. Your dries for your cake will vary based on how many cake pans you have. If you have three and you can fit all three in your oven, then go for the gusto and throw it all together in the biggest bowl you have. If you only have two or one you'll have to come back later and redo this step again.

Don't just think you'll be clever and mix all the ingredients now and save time. Because then you'll end up with baking soda that gave its all producing gas for you sitting in the bowl instead of in your oven and you'll end up with a dense flat pathetic cake that is no thicker than a piece of pita bread. I will laugh at you. In fact, I'm laughing now. Don't make me smack you, follow my instructions.

NOTE: You might want to double-check my work on these amounts since I don't know how to multiply.

Here is the breakdown for your pans, if you have one pan you use this amount:
2 cups sugar
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

Two pans you use this:
4 cups sugar
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
2 teaspoon salt

Three pans you use this:
6 cups sugar
5 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 cup cocoa powder
4-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
4-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon salt

Stir the ingredients to produce a nice light brown color. Reminds me of dry cake ingredients stirred together.

STEP 5: Wets!

Now onto the wet ingredients. Mix these in a separate container from the dry ingredients. Separate! After you add your wet ingredients stir them together to make something that looks like extremely liquidy vomit. Here are your breakdowns:

1 pan:
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 pans:
4 eggs
2 cup milk
1 cup vegetable oil
4 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 pans:
6 eggs
3 cup milk
1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons vanilla extract

STEP 6: Start Throwing Stuff Together Like a Madman

Hopefully your water from step 3 is boiling by now. If it is, then it is time to start mixing. Dump your wet ingredients (not including the boiling water) into your dry ingredients. Stir like crazy, but don't spill. Those are Domokun guts you're dealing with. Once it is all stirred up it should look a lovely brown color. You'll be tempted to put some on your face to exfoliate your pores. Or you'll come up with a childish diarrhea joke to say to your friends. Very clever, you earned yourself a "Special" sticker.

STEP 7: Time to Play With Boiling Water

Measure out your boiling water. Here is the breakdown:

1 pan:
1 cup boiling water

2 pans:
2 cups boiling water

3 pans:
3 cups boiling water

Measure it carefully, don't burn yourself. Not that I don't want you to hurt yourself, but the leavening agents are at work and they need to get into the oven quickly! So no burning. And if you burn yourself, then run your burn under cold water while continuing to work with your feet.

Pour the boiling water into the bowl, stir carefully so you don't splash 212 degree chocolate molten fire all over the place. The batter will become strangely elasticy. You will be slightly concerned. The batter will also be extremely liquidy. You will become even more concerned. Nevertheless, we must continue on.

STEP 8: I Transfered From Mixing Bowl State to Baking Pan University

Time to transfer the contents. You will need to properly divide up your batter into your pans. People with one pan will have the most difficulty here. Do it quickly but get it right. Once the batter is evenly distributed, toss the pans in the oven and set your timer to 30 minutes.

I know the recipe says 35-40, but we're setting it for 30 for two reasons. One, because I say so. Two, because it's better to check early and see if the cake is done. You can't undo baking. Over-baked cake is no good. We want cake that is just barely finished. This way it stays moist. That's the idea anyway.

After the 30 minutes check the middle of the cake with a toothpick or a knife or something similar. If it comes out clean in BOTH cakes then pull them both out. If one needs more time then you can pull the other out, but be sure to set the timer if you are going to come back in two minutes. Otherwise you might forget and end up with a brick instead of fluffy Domokun innards.

STEP 9: Go Back and Bake More Cake

Here is the part of the instructions where you go back to step 3 and do it all over again unless you had three baking pans. You must have three cakes before you can proceed. Here are two of mine...they look like black holes of chocolate goodness. They aren't burnt though...they're just chocolatey.

STEP 10: Sugary Chocolatey Butter Equals Frosting!

Time to make the frosting since you have your three cakes. I doubled the frosting recipe for my three cakes, which gave the the correct amount of frosting. If you want a ridiculous amount of frosting then feel free to make more. Here is Hershey's recipe, which I have doubled here:

2 sticks (1 cup) butter or margarine
1 1/3 cups cocoa powder
6 cups powdered sugar
2/3 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

The recipe calls for melted butter here. I just let my butter sit out for a day. Do what you wish. Add your cocoa to the butter and mix well. Start adding powdered sugar and milk, alternating between the two and mixing before adding more. When you're all done with the sugar and milk you can add more sugar if you want a stiffer frosting or more milk if you want a more spreadable frosting. I added a bit more milk to make sure I could spread the frosting on the cake without destroying it. Finally add your vanilla and mix it in.

STEP 11: Assembly Time

Time to start the final leg in the process. Assembly. We have the frosting, we have the cake. Lets introduce the two, shall we? Get your sheets of cake all lined up and ready to go. Get a butter knife or a spatula or some item that can spread frosting.

Find a large serving platter or plate or tray or something that you can move around a 9" x 13" cake with arms and legs attached to it. All I had was a cookie sheet which barely fit the arms and legs. You'll want around 6" on the sides and bottom. Position your cake on whatever you have and apply a thin layer of frosting to the top of One of the sheets of cake. Take another sheet of cake and put it on top of the layer of frosting, make sure its sides are lined up evenly with the first layer. I had to adjust mine a bit after I took this picture. Put a layer of frosting over the top sheet cake.

STEP 12: Insta-appendages

Cut out arms and legs out of the third cake. Transfer them to the body and place them in the correct location. Do final shaping with a knife. I should have done a better job with his legs and his arms. The reference picture shows his arms and legs being slightly rounded. He also has a little crotch that his legs fit on both sides of. I failed to look at my reference picture at this point and didn't capture everything perfectly. Domokun also has little hands and the top of his head is slightly rounded. You can get as precise as you want. Take your time cutting the pieces.

STEP 13: I Cut My Teeth on Cutting Teeth

Prepare your teeth. I had to cut mine out. You probably will too unless you found white candies that look like teeth. If you did I applaud your awesomeness. You have to find a balance between your cake's body size, your teeth size and the number of teeth you need to make. My reference picture shows Domokun with four teeth on the top and bottom. This would produce a mouth too small on my cake, so I upped his teeth to five on top and on bottom.

Prepare your mouth background (raspberries for me) by cutting them in half if you'd like. I put my teeth on the cake first, then put my raspberries on and then cut raspberries into even smaller pieces to fit between the teeth.

My eyes are round pieces of candy, so they required no preparation, but if yours do, then prepare your eyeballs now and add them to your cake.

STEP 14: Our Quest Is Over...

We are finished! Now devour. You'll want to refrigerate the cake since the raspberries will begin to mold if left out. Ask me how I know...yeah. You can probably come up with some realistic looking fur by dusting the frosting with cocoa powder, but I was hesitant to do it for fear of ruining the taste of the cake. It probably would have tasted fine though. Try it out on the excess of the third cake and see how it tastes if you're unsure about it too. I hope you enjoyed making your own edible Domokun. It was a fun little project for me to do.

Comments

[=SMART=]

[TechNerd1012]

wow, thats probably the most random thing Ill watch today.

[Warlrosity]

What the hell?

[=SMART=]

Exactly :)

[ANTQNUT]

bai bai domokun! yumm!! :P

[D3M0N]

http://picasaweb.google.com/brianccramer/DOMOCAKE#5308309866165837218
For another attempt at a domo cake

[=SMART=]

hahah very nice *added to favrouites*

[teh darkcloud]

Haha, I was so ready to make this. Then I saw the picture of the plushie and remembered last summer when I was so sleep deprived that I dreamt a domo-kun plushie with razor-sharp teeth was chasing my sister and I around. I woke up scared and amused at the same time, it was the weirdest feeling. But yeah, I'll try to make this cake eventually, it looks good!

[lookatmygrlyfont]

domokun pwns!

[Vendigroth]

isn't that a grue?

[ARVash]

This is absolutely AWESOME!! :O. if i make this i'll take piccys :3

[kohlious]

i made this a way easier way... i just baked a cake mix cake in 2 (two) 9x9 pans. i put the first on the top side of a pizza pan (not in the center), cut the second one into three parts, halved it and then cut one half in half lengthwise, if it makes it easier... 50%, 25%, 25%. i put the 50% peice lining up below the other cake and cut a small square in the bottom of it to make the legs. i cut pieces out of the other two parts lengthwise so that the arms had definate shape but the hands were still bulbous. when i iced it you could barely tell it was more than one piece! another thing i did was used the red and white canned squirty-outy iceing for the mouth, later realizing if i used a peice of cardbord i could've made straight lines... whatever... i don't mean to rain on anyone's parade. i just thought i'd let all those other lazy sob's like myself know that there is hope; there is an easier way! : )

[zachninme]

I have never, ever heard of a cake that uses that much boiling water (or even boiling water for that matter) in that stage of the recipie. If you re-check, you are probably s'post to mix the cocoa powder with it, then add it as a wet.
I would also save the baking powder for last, so *hopefully* the mixture will be under 120F (so there is still 1 "act" left)
You could do this with 2 cakes (1 for that matter, if you don't mind a 1 layer cake) by completely cutting out the mouth area, and using that to make the arms and feet."
"-3 7/12 (yes, seven twelfths) cups cocoa powder (I used Hershey's since it's their recipe)" To clarify, and make sure people don't run out to buy 1/12 measuring spoons, you may want to put something like-"2 1/4 for cake, 1 1/3 for frosting) And for the cake, you want un-dutched, or natural cocoa. For the frosting, you want dutched, or European style cocoa.

Thats all. :-)
(Sorry for all the critiqueing. :-()

[bigtoe]

I assure you zachninme that the 1 cup of boiling water per sheet cake is accurate. I included the link to Hershey's recipe in step 2. I've never heard of using boiling water for a cake either, especially after mixing the wet and the dry ingredients. I think the extrodinary amount of hot water is supposed to make the cake moist, which it was. It was pretty moist a few days later when I was still trying to finish off the pathetic half of a Domokun. It really works though, so I'm not going to argue. I like the cutting out the mouth idea, but I'm guessing that if you have a one layer cake and try to make arms and feet out of just the mouth you'll end up with tiny arms and legs or one gigantic mouth. You might be right about the dutch/natural cocoa, but I was just following the recipe. You're definitely right about the 3 7/12 cup thing...that's supposed to be intentionally confusing. I think. Hell it confused me when I looked at it right now. Thanks for all the comments everybody, hope you enjoyed the strangeness.

[zachninme]

Sorry to be a pain, but are you sure that you aren't supposed to mix the water and cocoa together, then add it? I just remember doing that when following the recipie a while back, so I could be wrong. With the mouth thing, you could probably cut off a rectangle the size of a leg, and cut that in widthwise, so it is just as big, but short. This is still a really cool cake!

[0.775volts]

yes yes, eat him... that is what he gets for all of those kittens...

[kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun]

ha ha ,but its reli ur fault he ate all those kittens lol

[paper warrior]

i got an idea...

[paper warrior]

strangest cake i've seen still pretty friggin awesome

[PetervG]

Ahhhhh a Domokun! Run! Oh wait, eat him!