Valentine's Day (Catch up post 4)

I love baking. I love making something with  my own two hands.

I especially love watching people enjoy what I've made.

So, any occasion (read: Excuse) I can find to bake

I take advantage. 

This was Valentine's Day.

I started by making chocolate pound cake baked in two round pans.

Then, I printed out a heart shape and placed it on top of my cake.

I cut around the stencil and made two hearts.

Next, I put a layer of Chocolate Ganache on top of one cake

Next, I covered the ganache with fresh strawberries

Then I placed the second cake on top of the first. 

I whipped up a batch of pink buttercream icing and iced the cake

I wish that I had had some fondant to cover the chocolate crumbs on the buttercream!!

Elsie P

PS - if I was going to do this over, I would have made a half recipe of the chocolate pound cake, cut each layer in half  to  make the cake half as tall. It was a lot of cake, though it was delish!!