My daughter, Katie, turned 13 last week. I knew when we sat down to disscuss possible cake designs she wouldn't want a girly, fru-fru cake. That's just not my Katie. We passed ideas back and forth and finally decided on a Tim Burton-ish style.
Katie then, much to my chargin, requested the cake be topsy-turvy. Prior to this cake I had never attempted one of these gravity defying confections, and I was more than a little worried I wouldn't be able to pull it off. In the end I decided as long as the cake was only two tiers I would attempt the fête.
Here is the breakdown of the cake:
Bottom Tier: Two 9 inch layers of decadent chocolate cake frosted in vanilla buttercream icing. Vines and leaves are chocolate icing dyed black.
Top Tier: Two 6 inch layers of vanilla cake coated in chocolate buttercream, also dyed black. The spiderweb was freehanded using the vanilla buttercream.
The mountain and moon were made well in advance out of gumpaste. It is important to give gumpaste items plenty of time to dry out.
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