White Chocolate Mud Cake for my Nephew's First Birthday

I got to let the creativity loose in the kitchen earlier this week when I was given the task of creating a cake for my nephew's first Birthday family dinner. I was was only given one instruction from his Mum. That was to make something delicious. I had planned on getting the Vintage Women's Weekly Birthday Cake book out and create something spectacular. But then a major case of the CBFs kicked in. Who wants to eat a boring old butter cake and jam roll smothered in brightly colored butter cream in the form of a choo choo train anyway?

I remembered a few years ago I had a tea party for my Birthday and had found a recipe for a white chocolate mud cake that I had made as cup cakes. I remember the cakes turned out to be extremely tasty and super moist. I dug out the recipe and melted 300 grams of white chocolate, added some flour and a couple of eggs amongst other things and baked at 160C for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

I let the cake cool before preparing the white chocolate ganache. I melted a further 200 grams of white chocolate and stirred in a few table spoons of sour cream. I stirred it until it thickened slightly. I left the cake on the cooling rack and placed the rack over a baking tray and poured the ganache mix over it.

I placed the iced cake on a timber board and sprinkled with holographic, edible glitter. I got the colored writing icing out and wrote HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY Remy on the cake. How hard is it to write with icing?! Next time I think I'll down a couple of Valium to help me cope with the task! I put the cake in the fridge to firm up the ganache.

I took the cake around to the Birthday Boy's house and presented it to his Mum. She was thrilled. I scored 10/10 from all that were lucky enough to taste it.

This is one recipe that I'll be hanging on to for a very long time to come!

UPDATE: I made the same cake a few days later for The Gentle Giant's birthday. Only this time, 'somebody' noticed the oven was on in the middle of the day at a low temperature and turned it off! My second cake sunk and did not and could not rise to the occasion. I decorated it with the white chocolate ganache, this time adding a touch of blue gel food dye, as well as edible glitter and a monogram. It tasted just as great as the other one, it just looked slightly flat....