Food blogger, baker and zoology graduate, Rhiannon from CakeCrumbs, has put together an amazing tutorial on creating spherical cakes that can be decorated as our universe's various planets.
I know right? So freaking cool.
The possibilities for these things are endless: An astronaut themed b-day party where everyone dresses up as their favorite space explorer and eats their way through the 8 planets (plus little ole Pluto), Baking up a batch of planets for your kid's science fair where the judges can munch away the various layers (like no one knows that it isn't the parents who do the experiments) thus handing over the blue ribbon to your child, or, if you're not into planets you can always turn these round cakes into bowling balls, the heads of various family members or over-sized cake pops.
Whatever you want! But for this particular recipe, we are going with the planet theme:
