Special order cake!!

The fondant covered cake that I brought into school went over so well that someone asked me if I could make a cake for her daughter's birthday later in the week!  I was pleasantly surprised to find out that everyone had just assumed someone had picked up a bakery cake until they heard a friend of mine talking about it.

She requested a 6 inch cake with lots of chocolate and roses. I decided on a devil's food chocolate cake mix, whipped dark chocolate ganache for the filling, and chocolate butter cream for the cake.

Originally I had made both larger roses for the top of the cake and smaller roses to decorate the sides with, however after putting on the pattern and the top roses I decided it would look too crowded with the mini roses. In the end, I was really pleased with the end product.

The person I made it for said it went over really well at the birthday party and said the whipped ganache was wonderful.  I'll have to make one to taste soon!

P.S.  This was the last baked good I made in my studio apartment!  Yay for a bigger, better kitchen next time!