Dad at the beach

So my parents went away on vacation to Croatia leaving the church a great opportunity to plan for my dad's (pastor of our church) birthday surprise.

my dad absolutely loves popcorn and so for my dads 53rd birthday the church got money together and bought him 53 kg of popcorn seed. hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! It was awesome seeing his face expression when we totally interrupted him while starting the service to present him the incredibly huge present :)

So since he was totally brown from his vacation in Croatia and since he loves the beach i created this cake for the church to share after the service.

have a good laugh. it is meant to be a funny cake :)

black and white cake

So i saw this picture about 9 months ago and decided that i wanted to give it a try.I thought long and hard to when i would want to until finally i decided to use either my dad our my husband as a guinea pig.

Being that my dad and husband have their birthdays back to back i thought it best to have them celebrate together. And so they did :)
As the date got close i started to become sad because i realized that most of the family would be out of town. How could i make such a huge cake and risk over half of it getting spoiled? So i opted for a smaller creation of the cake.

And here is my creation: White/dark chocolate Supreme

The top layer was a milk chocolate cake filled with milk chocolate frosting and the second layer was darker than dark chocolate sponge with dark chocolate fudge frosting.

The tricky part was the chocolate decoration. living in Europe has proven to be a challenge when it comes to creating any kind of chocolate statues, candies or in this case chocolate sheets with swivels all over. The chocolate is just not right for it. The chocolate tastes better in Europe however the consistency is just not right. it melts too fast. So in between each sheet i created i had to refrigerate them before making more or adding the swivels. It took me a whole day just to get the chocolate sheets prepared. The rest was easy. Once i had the sheets the baking layering and icing the cake was done in no time. once the cake is iced you simply stick on the chocolate sheets. It was a great cake to create!!! A real man-ly cake and it was very much enjoyed by my family and friends.