The Birthday Cake

So after the trial run was made I did some trawling on the net and found the perfect cake which I proceeded to copy. Here is the original link to this wonderful cake, it's an impressive piece of work, I think mine was pretty good too.

I chose to use the aforementioned Mary Berry chocolate cake (the recipe of which I will find a post soon) but the delicious chocolate fudge frosting was from the Apple and Spice blog. While it was one of the best frostings i've made, not having a candy thermometer meant that I hadn't quite got the fudge to hardball and therefore had to bring it to the the boil for a second time in order for it to reach the right consistency to spread. As you can see, second time was the charm and it spread beautifully!And the birthday girl loved it!!