Christmas/Holiday Cake

In preparations for our Christmas trip to St. Louis, I baked a triple layer cake - yellow cake, chocolate ganache filling, chocolate fudge cake, chocolate ganache filling and yellow cake. It is decorated with buttercream.

I wanted to incorporate Christmas & winter - it turned out 'almost' how I wanted it to. But some learnings for next time!

Snowman Cake

The Holidays are here and I was looking everywhere for a snowman cake pan...since my search came up empty I saw a tin candy container in the supermarket with a snowman's head and decided to replicate it in cake.

First I had to bake, carve and ice the cake:

Then I decorated with buttercream icing...