“Just a plain chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing” was my client’s request.  Really?  No peppermint?  No dark chocolate shavings on top?  Do people really want plain cakes any more?

Well, I just couldn’t go there.  So, a few dots and a royal icing snowflake later, here it is:

Who’d know there are 3 layers of (plain) dark chocolate cake under all that white icing?

Now just to bring my client to the dark side when it comes to her design requests.