The Cullen Cake

Wow what a day. I am totally exhausted. With a late night cooking it was a delayed start this morning on the imfamous Cullen cake. Luckily I had prepared the fiddley bits during the week, so it was just a matter of cooking, ganaching, covering in black fondant and topping with cut out crest pieces.

Yes that's right you read correctly 'Black' fondant. I have learnt today that it is... trying to say the least. But after about ten roll out attempts I finnally managed to get it onto the cake.

I spent the rest of the day adding the pieces of the crest and adding the little balls around the bottom edge. I think next time I would go with silver balls or a silver ribbon. That would have broken up the black a bit better.

I learnt quite a few things while doing this cake. Practice does really make perfect. Tip - edible balls will disolve when they come in contact with alcohol.