Black Forest and 3-Layer Sponge Cake for a Dear Cousin

I just finished two cake-order. Both came from the same person. Siti, my hubby's cousin's wife, had just delivered her third baby boy and is now still under maternity leave. She wanted to send these cakes to her fellow colleagues in school (she works in a school's general office) as a gesture of appreciation for her colleagues and teachers' support throughout her pregnancy.

The first cake is a Black Forest Cake. As you can see, I don't know why I like to have a minimalist look for any chocolate cake that I make. Because I think with the chocolate glaze and a touch of cherry, it shows the exclusivity...no need the 'noisy' decoration...whoaaaa... :)). The BF is made of two layers of sponge cake with the usual dark cherry filling on top of a layer of whipped cream. Cover it with cream cheese and pour it with chocolate glaze. Perfect!



Second cake is a three layer cake, all three different flavour sponge cake. Vanilla, chocolate & coffee. Hmmmm, they are so nice and light! For filling I put a layer of bitter-sweet ganache and cream cheese custard. Hehehe....how much eager I want to taste them after assembly, I can only dream of it. Perhaps I will make it again for the family next time... But the spongy texture was really appealing (I got to try all three flavours when I trimmed the sides ;)).


Covered with buttercream, I was quite lacking of idea on what to 'draw'. Because Siti didn't want any writing on it and just wanted a simple deco. So, after putting the borders I made the body of the clowns sitting at the 'beach sand' of brown sugar, piped out some greeneries and threw some sprinkles. Put the clowns' heads...et voila! A simple and cute cake.