Romantic Geode Cake
This cake was for a couple that I know. They have a long-distance relationship across two continents. For the short time when they were together, I wanted to celebrate their time together by making them a cake. I asked their favorite flavor: chocolate. And their favorite colors: blue and red. I started out by stacking two six-inch square layers of vegan chocolate cake with chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream. I made the buttercream by adding 200g of melted dark chocolate to a batch of Swiss meringue buttercream. It was heavenly. Then, before I frosted the cake, I cut a heart-shaped hole out of one side of the cake. And I frosted it really carefully around the funny-shaped hole. And I cleaned up my cake board. Then, I marbled white fondant with a bit of blue fondant and a long squirt of blue food coloring. I marbled them together until it got to this point and rolled it out. The color distributed quite a bit while rolling it out and I draped it over the...