Older than dirt!

Yep, it's that time of year again, and this time I decided I'd put together a cake to illustrate how old I am!

Yes, it's a forest floor cake!

This one was kind of fun to put together because literally NOTHING was made from scratch. The cake is a chocolate ganache mini sheet cake from Trader Joe's. To make "dirt" I whizzed up some cacao nibs, then some hazelnuts, then a few Joe-Joe cookies (TJ's answer to Oreos) in the food processor, and sprinkled bits of those all over the cake. The "twigs" are chocolate baton cookies and the "mushrooms" are Japanese mushroom cookies. And the "moss," which I wish were a little darker and more clumpy, is Malaysian pandan snack cakes processed into crumbs. I guess I could have added some chocolate rocks and some frosting leaves for greater authenticity, but I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out.

Plus it was delicious. I've never had so much fun eating dirt.