Tomas 1st B-day cake

The 1st of June was Tomas (my youngest son) 1st Birthday, to celebrate that moment I decided to use some of the skills I gain at CIAML and make a birthday cake covered in rolled fondant. I am not a big fan of rolled fondant, every time I go to a weeding and a piece of fondant covered cake lands in my plate I take it out and eat only the cake. But I have to admit that covering a cake with fondant makes it much more eye appealing, I love how the cakes look when they are very nicely decorated.

The cake was formed using 3 layers of chocolate butter cake and filled with one layer of chocolate ganache and one layer of a mixture of dulce de leche and cream cheese. I used a cheery syrup to wet the cake. That combination was really good I love the dulce de leche and cream cheese together. I was please with the final product specially because was my first real cake (at school I decorated dummy cakes with fondant). I was not happy with the recipe I used for the chocolate cake since it was more like a brownie, it tasted good but was very difficult to work with.

I think everybody liked the cake, the children were asking how can you make that with a cake? they did not understand the concept of the rolled fondant thing. They were anxious to cut the cake and when we did it, they try it and did not like it at all LOL!!!