Christmas Cake

This cake was done for an FRG ornament exchange. Lots of fun. I used the wilton's chocolate mousse filling recipe, which can be found at www.wilton.com, but I didn't really like the end result. It had a somewhat grainy texture I thought. I used food coloring to dye the layers. It took a lot of red and I could definitely taste it, though the other ladies sweetly said they couldn't. I used fondant to cover it. Most of the things you learn in the wilton's course 3. Not too elaborate. I did take a design press and use it to guide me to put some yellow buttercream on the "ribbon." I also put little trees next to the cake, like it was a present under a tree, but it, obviously dwarfed the trees.