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!