You will need:

Edibles:

Equipment:

• 2 x round sponge cakes 15 x 7.5cm(6 x 3in)
• buttercream for cake filling
• 1kg (2lb 2oz) dark chocolate ganache for coating cakes and dummies
• metallic food paint: pearlescent mink and pearlescent white (Rainbow Dust)

• 2 x round straight edged polystyrene cake dummies 10 x 10cm (4 x 4in)
• 10cm (4in) round cake board thin cut edge
• 15cm (6in) round cake board double thick
• palette knife and small sharp knife masking tape

1

Bottom Tier: stack and ganache coat (to 5mm thickness), two 15cm(6in) round sponge cakes forming a 'double barrel' style cake.
Top Tier: Use masking tape to join two 10cm (4in) round dummies to form a log shape and attach to a same sized thin card. Ganache coat the log. Using a flat brush paint both with a layer of pearlescent mink and once dry, with pearlescent white metallic food paint.

2

Using a small sharp knife cut and whittle marks into the ganache coating both horizontally and vertically to represent the detail on the bark of a silver birch tree.