I made this cake for my Brother-in-law’s 60th. I would really like to be able to give credit to the original cake artist who came up with the idea for the rugby player in the mud, but much as I have looked, I can’t find anyone to credit it to. To get inspiration I googled ‘rugby cake’ and lots came up with a similar design.

I used the instructions from Rosie Cake Diva’s Craftsy class to create the face. I followed Royal Bakery’s class to do the upside down method for the very first time! The bottom stripes are the team colours and pattern for the club. It is a chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache. I made it mid heatwave, the day I was ganaching, it was 29C in my kitchen with the air-con pumping and 42C+ outside. Let’s just say I learned a lot making this one!