Pig Cake with pigs in a mud bath

I can't take credit for this awesome pig cake - the idea came from pinterest (quite a few versions on there) - and I was so busy with the actual party, I also outsourced to a mum in Abbis class who is string up a business.  She did a much better job than I would have anyway.

It went perfectly with our pig themed party for Abbi, and was much admired.

I don't know who the original person who first made / designed this cake was, so sorry I can't give credit.

It was fairly easy for my friend to make - two layers of sponge cake, with chocolate icing between.  She put a layer of fudge icing around the cake so the kit cats would stick.  Obviously the basking piggies are pink fondant icing.  My friend used melted chocolate for the mud element.  This was delicious, but made the cake quite difficult to cut neatly  (10 year old girls don't care about that!)

I have seen other versions where the "mud" is chocolate ganache, which would have been too rich for Abbi.