Box of Tissues Farewell Cake
This cake was for a colleague of mine who decided to change jobs. As a farewell to him, I made this cake. All of us colleagues got together and bought him a gift card as a farewell gift and we wanted to give it to him inside the cake. So, I put my thinking cap on and tried to think of a design which would lend itself to something like this. First, I wrapped the gift card in plastic wrap. Then I rolled out some gum paste really thin. And wrapped it around the gift card and over some dowels and allowed to to dry. I wanted it to look like a sheet of tissue paper. Ironically, I had some banana cake already baked and ready to go, but it was round. But to make a box of tissues, it doesn't really lend itself well. So, I carved the cake into a more rectangular form, with the sides more trapezoidal. I filled the cake with a thin layer of dark chocolate ganache. My colleague isn't a huge fan of sweet, so I decided to use chocolate ganache...