Checkerboard Owl Cake

One of the youtube videos circulating the cake boards at the moment is Cupcake Addiction's Checkerboard rainbow cake. I had several people post this on my personal Facebook page or tag me in it somewhere, so I thought why not give it a go...on a mini scale.

I was making a little cake for a friend's birthday and figured i would put a surprise into the middle of it. so I chose to make three 6" sponge layers in Red, Purple and Yellow.

I found my circle cutters that were deep enough to cut through them and dutifully cut out the 3 sections...this sponge is lovely and moist, why do i never seem to get many offcuts! (Though that is probably a good thing really haha)

Layers were assembled and was then crumbcoated and decorated.

This also gave me a chance to use the owl set of cutters I purchased at Cake International recently from Patchwork Cutters

I am now just waiting to receive the pictures of the cut cake to share out :)
EDIT: Picture now received....