'Bejeweled Cake' ...

Since Christmas and with being quite busy with all Huddo's activities, getting fit....and moving house...I haven't made many cakes of late but last month I made a cake for my very good friend Melinda for her birthday and this week I made one for my little cousin Jerry-Lee who turned 12.

So first up to give a little backstory on my friend Melinda we have known eachother since we were 6 years old. We lost touch with each other after high school but thanks to Facebook over the last few years we have reconnected and now both each have a child, a love of baking and a strange addiction to the game Bejeweled. Therefore for her birthday I thought I would be funny and make her a birthday cake with it's decoration centering around this game. I predominantly used fondant icing and wanted to create a swirl of irregular jewel shapes in the colours from the game. (Those that are fans of the game will notice there are some other shapes in there too that I ad-lib'ed)
The cake itself is coconut sponge (just use a basic vanilla sponge cake recipe but as well as putting in a teaspoon of vanilla essence add a teaspoon of coconut essence) with milk chocolate ganache inbetween the layers. I also decorated with baker's buttercream icing I make myself and edible glitter.....lots and lots of edible glitter.
The end result was this

 However, I finished this the morning that I was going to meet up with Melinda. Huddo was ready. I was ready. "Just wait a sec matey Mum mum has to go to the loo".......within 30 seconds I heard this little thud.  ......Turns out my now 91cm 18 month old can fully reach our kitchen bench and was a little intrigued by the sparkly thing on the bench.....this is what became of my cake:

So I cut the smooshed third off, chalked the whole situation up to a parenting fail and vowed to never underestimate my son's height and what his little fingers can reach again and took the rest along with my camera. With Melinda having a toddler herself she found the humour and appreciated 'Huddo's touch' to her birthday cake.