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Retirement cake

So...here is a retirement cake I made for my hubby (Mat) to take to work for one of his guys who is retiring. Obviously the guy likes hunting :) ...so here we have my interpretation of a "hound dog" (lol - its a dog....and that's what really matters in the "hunting scene" I am trying to portray here right?), a moose jumping out of the cake (or a reindeer, or antelope) and a top heavy man. He had a super big head and was leaning a bit. Oh well, this was my very first time making a "person" out of fondant. SOooo not bad for my first time! I sent the cake in with a sign that said "Happy Retirement Tom" that was held up by two wooden kabob skewers...however it looks like it didn't make it onto the cake for this pic. I really have to get better at taking my own pics of my cakes! :/
I will post some pics of the figurines in a minute...just trying to figure out what I'm doing here...

First Ever Blog!

Ok..so here it is Jack's 1st birthday cake (actually its cake number 2). We had two birthday parties. We had a family party and a Jack's friend party - since he has so many little friends and we have quite a large family...and together it would have been too busy. Must admit both cakes were a bit rushed as I had so much else to prepare and wanted it all to be super fresh.
For this cake I tried to incorporate animals that he is familiar with. I imagine my friends were expecting a three layered cake with lots of fun things going on...well that will be next year guys!
Anyway, I was happy with it and I am sure if Jack could talk I imagine he would say so himself! :)