Several friends asked my husband if he was going to get me a birthday cake. He responded, "No way! She'd kill me!" Smart man! This cake allowed me to test a few difference recipes (thus the cake colors are different). I also tried a few new techniques. The bottom tier is painted. For the middle tier I used an extruder to get the skinny rope and then cut it into 2" sections. It was fun experimenting and playing with this cake.

The cake is some variation of chocolate cake with irish cream mixed in. I tried a few different recipes for that. The fillings are plain buttercream, buttercream with oreo, and buttercream with Irish cream. Some Irish cream may or may not have been consumed in the making of this cake. ;) TFL