It must be wedding season – again – and I guess since my last rose cake experiment, I’ve been named cake baker for bridal showers/bachelorette parties. I absolutely don’t mind, in fact, I love the idea.

It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do with this cake. The theme was a black and gold lingerie party which meant that I had to match the cake to the theme. After much research into cake decorating ideas, and some creativity on my part, I came up with the perfect idea.

Isn’t it great?! You can find anything and everything online – Google is your oyster. I decided to make a chocolate cake with dark chocolate frosting. The dark chocolate is the closest I could come to black without dealing with licorice-flavored anything. So I made a 3-4 tier chocolate cake with dark chocolate frosting filling as well as dark chocolate frosting on the outsides and a dark chocolate glaze to top it all off. It was a chocolate lover’s dream. I then got some gold-shimmer edible sprinkles. My original plan was to push the sprinkles up against the outsides of the cake. However when I decided on a glaze, that idea went out the window. I had to figure something out. I decided to just put a ton of gold sprinkles on top.

Okay it didn’t turn out exactly as I had imagined, but it was still delicious. Oh, and it was a bit lopsided from transport. I had someone drive me over so I could hold the cake and stop it from falling apart in the car – well, the photos are self-explanatory. It’s very Alice in Wonderland.