My neighbors, the dog ranchers, asked me to do a birthday cake for a friend of theirs. This fellow was kind enough to come over with my neighbor while I was in Louisiana last summer to help her clean out and fill the water buckets in my barn. I'd never met him. When the opportunity to do a cake for him came along I was more than happy to to go all out for the neighbors who have done so much for me in the past hard year, as well as repay the debt owed to their friend.
Here is the finished cake. I call it "The Dachsund Garden". Yes, I made those dachsunds myself. I can't blame them on my kindergarten aged child, but only because I don't have one. I'm still not the Ace of Cakes. Duff's "people" make modeling with gum paste look easy too.
