Team Awesome

Old Fashioned Devil's Food Cake with Whipped Chocolate Ganache.

Recipe from Chocolate from The Cake Mix Doctor.

Buttercream frosting recipe and shell technique learned from Wilton Decorating Cakes Book.

Frosted using the Large Spreader and the Decorator Bottle Set from The Pampered Chef.

This cake was made for Adam's school fitness team who got together for an "end of summer fish fry /slash/ deck christening party." We enjoyed some awesome Alaskan Halibut and so much other food that we never even cut the cake! So, no one on Team Awesome ate the Team Awesome cake that night. Awesome.

After two days of Adam forgetting to bring the cake to school, one of the guys finally stopped by on Tuesday night to get his piece with ice cream. I'm pretty sure he'd been thinking about it since Saturday. I think it was the white polka dots of buttercream that really tipped him over the edge. Anyway, by Wednesday morning almost 3/4 of the cake was still left so I brought it to work with me.

Where it was reduced to a few crumbs and a smear of ganache by 10 o'clock AM.