Cake number 2! Christmas 2013.

I wanted to have a go at using dark chocolate ganache to crumb coat the cake instead of buttercream, so this seemed like the perfect excuse to have a go! I also wanted to try making my own marshmallow fondant using the recipe from Jessicakes Blog. Another first was trying modelling chocolate for the holly leaves and berries. I used Wilton Candy melts mixed with light corn syrup. It was a little bit crumbly and fragile, so I think I’ll need to tweak the recipe to correct that in future.

I ran out of dark brown fondant so left the bottom tier with ganache on it as it was the right colour already!