I always give my pans a bang to knock out air bubbles and my cakes are still moist. Not sure his reasoning or why no big air bubbles would make a cake dry...I have never heard this and I've been baking over 30...
I agree, it sure looks like the flowers and leaves on the cake, but they probably let them dry a few minutes then cut it apart and placed them where they wanted and filled in with cornelli lace. Wow it sure is a beautiful cake!...
6 in serves 8, 9 in serves 22.
7 in serves 10 and a 10 in serves 30 that would be 40. This is using Earlene's cake chart. You can google it for reference.
Hope this helps.
Ganache makes a nice firm outer shell on the cake under fondant, its great. No need to refrigerate it...but if you do allow extra time for it to soften up a bit for easier cutting. I would put flowers on just before...