CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE AND MORE CHOCOLATE (oh and an elephant)

This week I have been commissioned to make a birthday cake for a chocolate loving 6 year old. 

This is the result

Chocolate cake with chocolate butter icing and chocolate chip cookies, melted milk and white chocolate and white chocolate buttons and chocolate rolls (with just a smidgen of sugar craft for his face).

  

Enough chocolate?

  

I made two pudding bowl cakes and one sandwich tin cake.

Sandwiched them all together (except one pudding bowl cake) with chocolate buttercream

Covered the whole lot with melted chocolate 

Added chocolate rolls for arms and legs and some cookies around his body 

Sandwiched his head with buttercream

Stuck it on top of his body using more buttercream

Made a cheeky face using white chocolate for background and then sugarcraft for his eyes, nose, mouth and tongue

Added some half cookie ears and just a bit more chocolate all over

Then filled the board with white chocolate buttons.

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE - enjoy x

 

And the elelephant?

Well I taught my friend to knit and it turns out she is a real natural.  Already deciphering patterns from the internet, changing colours, creating I-cords, you name it - look what she has made now .....

The pictures do not do this sweet little elehpant any justice - it is gorgeous and I have to knit one.  (I'll just add it to my long list of things to do!).

 

 That's it - I'm going on holiday now.