*Auction Cake*

First Communion Cake #1- Half-sheet two-layer chocolate cake with vanilla frosting covered in white fondant with gray-blue accents and white royal icing piped with lettering from First Communion invitations

This cake was one of two offerings to the auction that my former school put on every year with their golf tournament. The other was a cooking party (future post to come!). Let me start off by saying...this cake was HUGE! It was a half-sheet cake, the biggest cake I've made to date, but the picture doesn't do it justice.

I'll be honest, I was so super busy at the time of making this cake (just finished a baby shower, a birthday cake and had an additional First Communion cake that same day, PLUS I was coaching softball at my former school-whew!) that I'm not completely sure this cake was the chocolate/vanilla cake or if it was a chocolate/chocolate cake. Regardless, the highlight wasn't the frosting, it was the cake. I used Ghirardelli chocolate in the cake batter-YUM!

Since there was no carving or shaping involved, the detailing came with matching it to the invitation paper his mom used and incorporating it into the design. I used the background color (blue-gray) to break up all the white fondant with edging and the cross as a centerpiece, accenting it with, what else?, luster-dust! Then I piped the phrase from the invitations "A Blessed Event" separated with mini crosses all the way around the cake. Also, there are larger white crosses (dusted with luster) on each corner.

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