Thuy's Baby Shower Cake

My friend, Thuy, is due with her first baby November 9th, 2015.  She is having a baby girl.  I am co-hosting a BaBy-Q to celebrate the little munchkin's arrival with our mutual friend, Jill.  The decor includes pigs because it was a Jack and Jill shower BaBy-Q.  I got busy making the cake the week before.  I like making anything fondant related well ahead of time.  In the warm weather especially.  The pigs took about two hours to make from pink fondant.

My brain went completely blank with this cake.  I forgot to take any pictures before I stacked the cake.  It is a chocolate cake with raspberry filling (everyone is asking for this cake lately) and chocolate buttercream frosting for both layers.  I used store bought Dark Chocolate frosting to make the mud on the top of the chocolate cake layers because my chocolate buttercream wasn't dark enough.

The cake mimics a wooden barrel with pigs swimming inside enjoying a mud bath.  The Kit Kats on the outside of the cake do a good job making the cake layers look like a barrel.  I love that I didn't have to be super careful with smoothing out the frosting because it was hidden.  It saved me a lot of time.

It took me about an hour and a half to frost, stack, Kit Kat and decorate with pigs.

  

Given how easy it was to put together, the cake looks very fancy.  It is one of the cutest cakes I have made.  

My favorite part is the pig butts sticking out of the "mud."  I cannot wait to meet the little munchkin!