Happy birthday to my vegan daughter 💗. This was my first double barrel cake, and vegan too. Four stacked vegan chocolate cakes with chocolate almond ganache between the tiers and dark chocolate ganache under a thin layer of teal coloured vegan fondant. Then covered with very thin slices of pears that I candied, coloured and dehydrated before painting the edges with edible gold dust.

Thanks so much to Russian cake artist @tortikannuchka for the inspiration and design.

The vegan chocolate ganache recipe is from Vegan Richa:
https://www.veganricha.com/2016/02/vegan-chocolate-cake-with-chocolate-peanut-butter-ganache.html.

Note that I didn’t like their cake recipe, only the ganache recipe – I made it with almond paste and Lindt 70% dessert chocolate (yum!) also the nut-free ganache to cover the cake which worked really well (but I used 1 1/2 cups instead of 2/3rd cup of chocolate).

Cake stand from JR Marius.

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