Stripy 40th Birthday Cake

I've always wanted to have a go at the stripes thing. It looks really effective but I thought it looked a bit technical. I've finally had a go and actually it's quite straight forward.

The brief was a 40th birthday cake for a not very girly girl who likes chocolate, so I went for a chocolate cake covered in chocolate fondant. I've always loved the chocolate brown and light blue colour combination and thought it worked well as a girly but not girly girl colour theme.

Malt Chocolate Cheesecake

So I've been in a malty phase for a while, but I think I'm over it now. This cheesecake finished me off. Don't get me wrong - it was tasty but you could only eat a mouthful as it was so rich. 

The bottom layer is milk choc, ovaltine powder, double cream & cream cheese. The top layer is white choc, double cream an cream cheese. 

The base (which i much prefer to usual digestive biscuit base) was cow malt biscuits and butter.

and it of course was topped with malteasers...

It was  a Good Food recipe and can be found here http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/988642/malt-chocolate-cheesecake