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I definitely feel that this is the most professional-looking cake I’ve made to date .
It’s a retirement cake for my mum’s work-friend and I didn’t have any spec other than that.
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There some holes in the cake when I removed the wrapping, but these were easily filled in and smoothed over.
the inside of the cake is vanilla cake layers with strawberry jam and buttercream. The outside coating is a white chocolate ganache, gold leaf and cake hearts. The balls and fans are none edible.
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I’ve put the finished cake in one of my new fancy cake display boxes too as I had struggled the other week to get my normal cake boxes. I am tempted to just stock up on these for future as they’re so pretty