Chocolate Indulgence

This is the first cake I was commissioned to make. One of my coworker's asked me to make a chocolate birthday cake for his wife - and so here it is. Thanks for giving me this opportunity, and I hope you enjoyed it! Happy Birthday, Joanne!

This is a four layer, chocolate fudge cake with alternating layers of fluffy chocolate mousse and dark chocolate ganache.

If you want to know the layering specifically, this is how I built the cake (from top to bottom):

1. chocolate ganache
2. fudge cake
3. chocolate mousse
4. fudge cake
5. chocolate ganache
6. fudge cake
7. chocolate mousse
8. fudge cake

I decorated with 11 handcrafted, buttercream icing, white roses. (These are so fun to make!)

For the remaining border I did a simple, yet elegant, pearl chain out of buttercream icing.

Since it was also Father's Day weekend, I made two of these cakes at the same time - one for my coworker's wife, and the other for my Dad. Unfortunately, during transportation, the one for my Dad experienced a little trauma and ultimately did not look as good as the one pictured above. (Sorry, Dad!) But judging by how quickly my family devoured it, I can say with confidence that this was a pretty awesome tasting cake.