A Chocolate Birthday for Rumiana

This is a short photo timeline of the making of Rumiana's chocolate strawberry birthday cake. The two tiered cake and matching cupcakes were one of the bigger projects I had taken on since the new year. 

Chocolate Buttercream

Making Gnache

I made these for our class, because I knew that cake would never be shared...

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream, Chocolate Gnache and Fresh Strawberries

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Coincidentally, our birthdays are two days apart. Here's us blowing out our birthday candle.

Thanks to Finale, in Cambridge, for the sorbet fruit plate!

April, my favorite month!

April is my birthday month. Another one of mom's jarred scratch mixes she sends me!

Easter M&M cookies on a pretty vintage Italian plate!

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April is also BMac's birthday, friend and drummer of my boyfriend's band. So what kind of cake should a drummer get for his 21st birthday? Hmm...

Snare Drum Cake!

Funfetti Cake with Vanilla Frosting, and matching cupcakes.