My World...Not Quite What I Wanted It To Be

I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not but I got a gig making a birthday cake for one of my co-workers kids.
His birthday is on Halloween and I'm thinking of making a spider cake, until today that is when I got an idea for a pumpkin cake.

I went to the craft store and bought a spherical cake pan and decided I would make a practice run at the pumpkin cake without actually making it, but what would I make? Outside of basket, base, soccer, golf and bowling balls what kind of round cake could I make?

The world!

Originally I had planned on making the cake with a white chocolate ganache frosting, I had never made one before and I hear its a good frosting. I put the cake in the oven and while it baked and cooled I made my ganache frosting. All the recipes called for it to cool, either at room temperature for a few hours or in the fridge for 30 minutes. I opted for the fridge.

Problem is the frosting never reached its full potential. Even after an hour and a half in the fridge the cake would just soak up  the frosting and it would disappear. Thankfully my boy Duncan Hines and his sister Betty Crocker were on hand to save the day. (Look, I'm sorry people I just don't like butter-cream frosting, I've made it a few times and...well...blah...its gross to me.)

Once it was frosted in blue it was time to make some land and thats where things went a little off. I tried to start with North America but I think I made it too big as there was no room for South America when I got to the bottom. Next I did Europe and Africa and they just came out looking funny. Asia and Russia are disproportionally huge to me. I almost forgot Australia, Greenland and England.
When it was all done I took a bit of white frosting and made snow covered peaks on some of the appropriate places.

Should I ever make this again, I think I can do better.

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