Week 2 Wilton Cake Decorating Course....

This week we had to come to class with a multi layered pre-iced cake that was ready to decorate.
I opted to test out a recipe from my Planet Cake book and made 'White Chocolate Mudcake'
I baked one cake and used my new 'cake leveler' to cut it into 2 and also trim that funny 'dome' bit that can result from the rising agents in self-raising flour. So I had two perfect flat round layers. I wanted a third layer to add a bit more height but knew the white chocolate mudcake was going to be huge so I made a half quantity of a traditional butter sponge cake which baked to just the right size for one more layer and made it that the cake wasn't as rich in taste.
In between each layer I firstly piped a steady ring of buttercream icing to prevent the filling from being squished and flowing to the outside of the cake. Inside the ring I placed just plain freshly whipped cream as between the butter cream icing and the white chocolate mudcake layers this was one sweet cake!
I then covered the cake in bright blue (yes I have a bit of thing for my Wilton blue colouring!) icing and endeavoured to get it as smooth as I possibly could. This was as good as it got...

So by Monday morning I was all ready for class that night. Oh and I was stoked that I was right about the girl next to me accidentally picking up my 'tips'. She looked at me a little strange at first then opened her kit and realised. Was just relieved I hadn't lost stuff on the 1st night!
This is how my cake looked coming home that night......

I really really didn't want to even have a piece of this! But when I got home from class and the house was nice and quiet...couldn't help but have a piece with my Troy whilst watching a bit of '24' on DVD. This is what the inside looked like....

 And the remainder went off with Troy to work to share around with the crew at his office.

And to tag a bit of an update about my training for the 10km and losing weight. I haven't managed to shift any more weight but I have been hitting the pavement on a regular basis with Huddo in the jogger pram. My endurance fitness is definitely on the increase but the time I will complete the run in is a bit of worry! I personally am finding running whilst still breastfeeding quite difficult but I'm managing to get around it and get my fitness up which is making me very happy.