Ann Marie: Birthday Cake

A Birthday Cake for my friend's mother. I'm also naming the cake design "Ann Marie" in her honor. ^ - ^

I tried my best to make this cake as chocolaty as possible!
It's base is chocolate covered in chocolate buttercream with a chocolate mousse filling in the centre (the coloured icing is buttercream as well).

I started out with a general plan and then kept going from there. Luckily I stopped myself before I got carried away with the icing. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out especially since it was entirely my own design and there were moments when I thought it wasn't going to turnout... O . O

Surprisingly, the hard part turned out to be the cake itself. For some reason (most likely because of the humidity) the top center of the cake refused to bake! > . < I left it in for an extra twenty some minutes after wrapping in foil and it was still having issues but if I left it any longer the rest of the cake would have been overcooked. I took it out, let it cool, and then hacked off the ugly undercooked top and the rest of it was baked perfectly oddly enough, so it all worked out for the best. ^ - ^

Wilton cake recipe: [link]

Comments are much appreciated! ^ o ^

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