Caking away the hours...

Recently, the art of cake decorating has usurped my interest and made it darn near impossible for me to think about anything else. Who knew such a craft would combine so many of my inner most passions: crafting, painting, cooking, eating, spending time with my hubby, chocolate, designing, and so much more! The only downer is it really is not good for my figure to eat too much cake...so our neighbors are doomed to become the unknowing recipients of vast amounts of cake!

Filling the cake. I learned that the rim of buttercream frosting is essential to preventing the ooey-gooey chocolate ganache middle from seeping down the sides. Seepage makes it really hard to ice the outside...

A dirty iced cake. Gee, I wonder why it's called dirty iced? Maybe because it doesn't look pretty at all?

Top view of the finished 2 tier cake. More tiers would just mean more cake. After all, this is just practice for the really big cake (my sistah's wedding cake)

Quilting effect. We shined it up with luster dust and then steamed it to make it look shiny.

And for those interested, there is a post about the edible sugar flowers I've been creating scheduled to be posted in the near future (really, it's whenever I get around to downloading the pictures and making a post of it! hopefully soon!)