1. I added blue and green food coloring to the vanilla frosting until I reached my desired shade of blue.
2. The top of both cakes were trimmed so they would be level.
3. The first layer was frosted with chocolate and the second was sandwiched on top.
4. I then frosted the entire cake with blue frosting for a "crumb base" and put it in the fridge for 15 minutes.
5. When the frosting was set, I added another layer of blue and marked 8 divots equally spaced around the circumference.
6. A pastry bag with a semi-skinny circle tip was filled with melted chocolate to write out Chase's name. This was no small feat-melted chocolate has a mind of its own.
7. To finish, I completed the connections between the spots that I marked with piping swags.
8. The last step was to connect the swags with blue rosettes.
This was the most difficult part of the cake, as the thicker chocolate frosting began to seep out of the tip of the pastry bags. I guess that's what I get for buying the set at IKEA!
