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Our big, extended family Mom’s Day celebration gave me the perfect reason to make this cake:

I’m not the best at placing flowers on a cake, so I got a little help from a friend : ) 

The top layer is dense, chocolate cake with cherry pie filling and a thick ribbon of Dutch chocolate icing to keep said filling from squishing out.

The bottom is lemon cake with vanilla mousse filling. The pink fondant was made using my favorite marshmallow fondant recipe. 

Kudos to my uncle Jeff for giving me a lesson on how to use my camera- I love this photo!

…then this is the cake for you! This cake was a special surprise for the author of a knitting blog called Sunshine’s Creations.  Her knitting designs are amazing- so I wanted to impress her with something realistic. I used Makin’s Ultimate Clay Extruder to make the fondant into yarn. A clay extruder is a less expensive alternative to a Sugarcraft Gun. I wrapped the “yarn” around some chocolate cake balls. 

For the basket texture I used an icing impression mat. Underneath the fondant lies a smooth and creamy layer of caramel frosting surrounding a scrumptious spice cake!