Baymax Chocolate Cake

Lucky birthday boy Ethan had 3 birthday cakes this year, to celebrate his 3rd birthday - a strawberry Baymax cake, a naked rainbow cake, and now this one! Continuing with the Big Hero 6 theme, for his celebration at school, Ethan's mummy simply wanted an edible printed image on top of a round cake. She designed the cool print herself, as with the other cakes. 

Big Hero 6 cakes*

The cake is three layers of Devil's Food cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache and frosted with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. I added a border of red m&m's to up the chocolate factor (as if there wasn't enough chocolatey goodness in this cake). I'm still working on getting a super smooth finish for buttercream cakes. As you can see from the pic, there are quite a few air bubbles trapped in the frosting. And since Swiss meringue buttercream is a non-crusting type of buttercream, one can't use the Viva paper towel method to smoothen it out. Must practice more!

Buttercream finish and a border of red m&m's

As with Ethan's Baymax cake, I hand-cut his name out of fondant in Big Hero 6 font, and made a little fondant Megabot to add a bit more detail to the cake. Ethan's mummy finished the cake off by applying the edible printed image directly on top of the buttercream, and then topping it off with a toy Baymax figurine. Happy 3rd Birthday, Ethan! Thanks for letting me be a part of all your birthday celebrations this year :D

Happy 3rd Birthday, Ethan!*

yum yum! Ethan and his friends enjoying the yummy cake*

*pics courtesy of Ethan's mummy