Beach hut

Finally it was my own birthday and I wanted to make a cake that would look like the place I wish I could have spend my birthday - on a beach far away from the cold and all that snow!

I started to make 3 basic layers and a custard filling with a pineapple, rum and coconut jam which I colored blue.

I then made to round chocolate mud cakes. One of them was cut in to 4 small round ones. The other one I shaped and covered with marzipan for the beach.

I made the beach hut with Bounty chocolate cream filling and used the cut off bites to shape the roof.

I then use chocolate 'strips' to look like the 'wood' and added black icing and jelly beans to make a light chain around the hut.

I crushed some biscuits to look like sand, some toblerone to look like rocks and added some whipped cream to make waves. The mussels are Belgium chocolates. The 'palm tree' is a soft chocolate stick with a bit of fresh mint.