Black & White.

After having attempted these creations just from my own experience with fondant and sugar art, I decided that I would do a cake decorating course to learn a few more skills that I don't know how to do yet. So I joined a cake decorating class in my local community college and was mentored and tutored by Janis Boon.

At the beginning of the course, we were asked to draw a sketch of what design we would like to do for the final project of our course and I was quickly inspired by the colours Black & White. Something retro and classic about the idea of the colours I thought -- very 1920s Hollywood. The first idea that came to mind was to make a tiered cake, however since I was in a beginners class, it needed to be simplified. So I decided to make a hat box cake with a flower feature on the top to finish. During the span of the course we were taught how to mould different kinds of flowers, different piping techniques and also a few tricks of the trade with Cake decorating. And in the last haul, even I surprised myself with the final result - can I say, Vavavoom?!

Dark & White Chocolate Mudcake with Dark Chocolate Ganache