Experienced cake bakers! Need your help :)

[sloane]

you'll have to post pics when it's finished! sounds awesome!

and yeah, i'd be gutted if i had to throw out a whole cake!

[toomanyshoes]

Just popped the top out and its puuuurfect! Base still needs another 10 mins or so though! Fingers crossed it comes out cleanly to.

[Raupe]

Awesome!! Just remember to take pics and show us later!!

[Raupe]

Just saw your pics in the bake'n'share thread! WOW. You are seriously talented!
I want to make a giant cupcake for SIL B-day. Could you tell me how you covered the bottom (I think you used chocolate?) and what you used to decorate the top (is it icing? what kind?). I won't make it a rainbow cake, but I LOVED the way you decorated yours! Please do share. Pretty please

[toomanyshoes]

I put the base upside down on a wire cooling rack and the top right way up and just poured over melted chocolate, I was going to do ganache but I ran out of time.

Turned out ok though.

I butted and floured the mould, came out perfectly.

Put them together when they are set.

[Raupe]

So the top is melted white chocolate, not icing? I'm intrigued! So did you use icing to attach the deco or did you do that before the chocolate set (so the deco stuck to the chocolate)?

[toomanyshoes]

Just stuck them on before it set, you could wait and put them on with icing later if you wanted to.

I just dragged the back of a spoon over the choc while it was setting so it had more "texture" like icing I guess.