Here is last week’s BIG project: Gotham City wedding cake.

This cake stands 50cm tall on a 30cm base and is completely covered in ganache and modelling chocolate (no fondant this time). It is three tiers (8,7 and 6 inch rounds) plus a 6 inch dome on the top. The modelling chocolate was pre tinted, filled with coloured buttercream and then airbrushed.

The buildings were based on both the comic books (before and after the earthquake) and the Dark Knight films and were designed and crafted entirely by my sister, Marta, who absolutely aced them.

Credit for the original genius design of the cake goes to Samantha Billings of Bite me Bakery (https://www.facebook.com/BMBrides). You must visit her beautiful page and have a look at the masterpiece that is her Gotham City cake (https://www.facebook.com/BMBrides/photos/pb.364817880259962.-2207520000.1410902277./651486868259727/?type=3&theater)

I cannot take credit for the other genius idea involved in creating this cake: the coloured ganache. That goes to Naomi Morris from @CakeDecorCairns (https://www.facebook.com/cakedecorcairns). She has an extensive post on her blog (http://www.cakedecorcairns.com/) which thoroughly explains how to go about it and gives very helpful tips.