Birthday Cake: the making of

Dear all,

This is a bit of a cheat, but I had no new material so there you go! I had a lot more pictures of the cake I showed you last week, but no time to upload them. So this week I thought I'd show you the making of this fabulous cake.



So here's what it looks like in the beginning. You have three cakes which alternate chocolate and vanilla. Stack them with lovely chocolate buttercream icing in between.



Then, my favourite part: cover the whole thing in melted chocolate, yay! Then I leave that to "dry" while I make the decorations. I used marzipan and food colouring to make a shoe, with extra pearl sheen and some gold sugar balls. Not bad for a first try I say!



Next, assemble! Not only did I make a shoe and flowers with different coloured marzipan, as well as the letters, I also made two colours of butter cream icing for some pretty piping.



And there you have it, one amazing cake! The extra fun part is of course the checker board inside. See my previous post for a picture of that. Always an impressive cake this one, with lots of room to vary (I've made it before as you may recall). Enjoy!

xoxo Jennifer