A cake inspired by gardening for Julia's birthday. It's a bit of a wild garden with unkempt grass, daisies and buttercups and not a reflection on Julia's lovely garden.
I used my trusty Very Chocolate Cake recipe and went over the top with the decoration. For the filling I had some ganache made up in the freezer (more cream left over from St George's Day) and some homemade blackberry jam. Never tried freezing ganache before but it works well. Whipped it up before freezing and it came out ready to use.
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The top was green butter icing using a grass and hair nozzle. Never used this before and it took a bit of getting used to. You need to squeeze the piping bag and pull up sharply. I got better as I went along so some of the lawn was a bit uneven but whose isn't?
Daisies, buttercups and butterflies were made using some more of the ready-made icing again in varying colours.
So there you have it, way too much chocolate, sugar and artificial colourings.
Yum!
Pretty pleased with the results and had a great time making it.
Right, what next?
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