Black and White

Wil wanted a black and white cake for P because that's her favourite colours. So he suggested a black colored cake with three white flowers on it. I was excited about doing this cake...I like the idea as I had imagined that it would look stunning...white and black...STARK!

The inside of this cake is a white chocolate mousse. Doing the cake part was easy, but as the coating was supposed to be black, I had to 'crack' my mind on how to go about doing it. First I tried doing a ganache and using black colour but that did not work as it only turned grey! Then i thought why not use whipping cream and coloring it, that may work better. But atlas, no matter how much black color I added, I could only achieve a dark grey color, and that was after using up the whole bottle of black coloring! Yucks...the thought of chowing down all that coloring simply put me off. So eventually I settled for wafer sticks with dark cookie crumbs for the top. Sigh, that was as black as I could achieve. The best part of all was putting on the flowers and writing out the words in white. Yes, I was happy with the final look of it. Happy Birthday P.