Chocolate box cake

This cake is great for chocolate lovers; Chocolate sponge, with chocolate buttercream, chocolate icing and chocolates on top (in this case from Thorntons)!. It is finished with a rope edging, ribbon and a bow. This cake can be personalised in two ways 1) the choice of colours for the ribbon, rope and bow and 2) the choice of chocolates on the top. It was VERY tasty!!

My first cake

This was the first cake I made; it was a basic sponge cake (filled with a layer of jam and a layer of buttercream) and after using regal icing (roll out icing) I 'flooded' a picture of the Union flag using royal icing. This is a great method of putting a picture on a cake. I then used the same colours to do a rope edging for the bottom of the cake. I know it's not perfect - but you need practice for that, and having done it once I now know how to make it even better!