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  Chocolate Bubble Cake by cakecrumbs Watch Artisan Crafts / Culinary Arts / Desserts©2013-2016 cakecrumbs
  Well, I mentioned in my birthday journal that I had a huge disaster with my birthday cake. This is it. I made the last-minute decision to spend the day before my birthday celebrating with friends, leaving me with 6 hours the next day to make the whole cake. Given the cake took 2 hours to bake and involved lots of chocolate, you can see where this was an error. The cake didn't cool in time, the ganache didn't set in time, and so when I tried to add hollow, thin chocolate bubbles and other accents to the cake... yeah, melted. It was worse when we returned to the cake after dinner. There were, er, globs of melted chocolate where there used to be small spheres.Then there was the inside. I made chocolate velvet cake balls which I attempted to bake inside the mudcake... but they floated. So after cutting the bubbly dome off the top of the cake and turning it upside down, I had humps instead of polkadots. Creys. I'd had thoughts of not posting it. But it's all about the growth and shiz and I shouldn't bury all my fails so you guys can see it's about making mistakes and learning and that there's no such thing as talent. So yeah. Here's my thing. Will revisit this idea in future. I think the cascade of bubbles still has potential, perhaps better on a tiered cake so I might do it again if ever an occasion calls for a large enough cake. Blog post: [link]________________Follow Cakecrumbs on : [link] or Tumblr: [link]
  That looks so good D:
  Reply Saviella
  Professional Traditional Artist I don't get why you say that the cake is has failed... It looks sooooooo good!
  Hobbyist Traditional Artist You can't tell it was a "fail" until you tell us it was
  Reply k-swizzle
  Hobbyist Artist Are the chocolate bubbles really "bubbles"? Like hollow? If so how did you do that?!?
  It is the most beautiful chocolate cake I've ever seen!!! However I shouldn't eat chocolate, it looks soo delicious! Reply Crysa91
  Hobbyist General Artist Oh that's not so bad! It still looks good and I'm sure everyone involved enjoyed it.
  I couldn't tell it was a fail!
  Reply NinjaEwaPeach
  Student General Artist Oh my goodness what a delicious "fail" ;D The cake still looked MARVELOUS!
  Thank you! Reply PainQueen
  Hobbyist General Artist This looks delicious with a kinda dark and twisted dream theme. When I first saw it I believed it was a look you wanted. You say failure, I say make me one lol.
  Haha. I'll make you a better one. Reply PainQueen
  Hobbyist General Artist Yay! Reply Arsmundi
  If this is the 'fail', then I'm dying to see the 'success'! This is wicked awesome!
  Hobbyist General Artist looks wicked for all the "errors" All I see is abstract tasty-ness Reply claremanson
  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter oh wow looks lovely, i would never have guessed it went wrong!
  Thanks! I was so close to not posting this and never speaking about it ever. Reply TsuKaza90
  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter mistake?? Ohmigerd, still looks scrumptious! It's so pretty, the fact the spheres melted into the ganache makes me drool. It's like a pool of chocolate yummmmmm~Unfortunate the velvet cake balls floated lol. It makes a funny story though xD. Even after all that didn't work out, to me it turned out great =] I'm not a chocolate person but looking at this certainly makes me want to have a slice -drools-
  Professional Digital Artist I understand that the cake is not as you would have liked it to be but I assure you that is beautiful and makes you really want to taste it.if I had not read the description I would not have realized that was not how you wanted it. I thought it was intentionally done that way (ahem I hope not to be misunderstood, haha​​)
  Professional Digital Artist there is the Stendhal syndrome for sweets? Reply cakecrumbs
  Naw. ♥ You are most kind.
  Professional Digital Artist Hehe, thanks! Reply Kuneria
  Student Digital Artist And yet the cake still looks beautiful and absolutely delicious 8DThe bubbles is an adorable idea! I wish it turned out the way you wanted it to! I want to see what you had in mind :'D
  Perhaps one day someone will ask me for a tiered cake with chocolate bubbles!
  Hobbyist General Artist Still looks damn delicious to me Reply cakecrumbs
  ... i want that cake!
  *gives* Reply soldier-1
  *om* *nom* *nom* *om* *nom*cake ez perfect fuel for carward killing time!
  Professional General Artist This is beautiful to look at and I bet beautiful to eat. Reply cakecrumbs
  Professional Artisan Crafter This is a fail? It looks awesome and delicious. I guess that's how I can tell you're as awesome and professional as you are, though. When you can see infractions us lesser mortals cannot x3
  Haha, naw. I think it's always easier to see the faults on your own work. But I just know what this was supposed to look like - and what I ended up with was far from it.
  Professional Artisan Crafter Well, your failure is to be celebrated =] I hope you realize your dream next time, and I still want to congratulate you on a lovely cake n_n I hope your birthday party was fantastic Reply Alislinn
  Hobbyist Digital Artist I'm drooling *�*
  Student General Artist Whatever you say, it looks perfect to me!
  Well, this looks like whatewver but a failure to me... but anyway, I hope you'll try this idea again in the future, and it will turn out as you expect Reply cakecrumbs
  Definitely will! Reply theperfectmind
  Hobbyist Photographer I would die for this cake Reply cakecrumbs
  Then how would you eat it? Reply theperfectmind
  Hobbyist Photographer Reply DeviantMetroid
  Student Traditional Artist Wow, this is the first time I've looked at food and had the word beautiful come to mind before tasty. The shaved coconut(?) really adds a flair of elegance to the whole thing and the placement of color shades you used for the "bubbles" is well coordinated. However, I think the whole piece could have used a little more structure with the design like placing the wafers(?) in a more complete Fibonacci spiral (though the bubbles don't leave much room for that), spacing them more evenly, or incorporating more of those white lines that were hidden under the spheres to accentuate some of the 'negative space', if you will.
  Thank you for the feedback. What I think you refer to as coconut are strands of white chocolate, and the circles I think you are referring to when you say wafers are piped white chocolate ganache. I agree that it could have used much better structure. The first lot of piping the white ganache looked very different. However, after adding the chocolate decorations on top and having them melt into the ganache, I had to erase most of it.
  Student Traditional Artist Oh okay, thanks for clarifying. I couldn't taste them to tell lolWell, it still looked great so good job all around Reply cakecrumbs
  Yes it's always much harder when looking at a picture. I'm often shocked when people guess right. Reply keidream