Elijah's 8th B-Day - Puppy Camping

My brother Elijah just turned 8 yrs. old, and he wanted to have a "Puppy Camping Birthday". He has always loved Beanie-Baby puppies, and with his big imagination he loves to play that they go camping and off-roading, and have really big adventures! :) So for his birthday cake, I bought the four-wheeler (it's remote-controlled) and made a puppy-campsite, complete with cookie crumb gravel, ice cream cone trees, a fondant tent and grass. I topped it all off with a modeling chocolate sculpture of his favorite puppy, "Frisky". :)

Pickin' and Grinnin' ;)

This font is one I got on the internet - it's called "Cowboy". I love to copy and design fonts for cake writing!

The guitar strap is made from modeling chocolate. I engraved it with gum paste tools to look like the real guitar strap. The strings are spaghetti noodles dusted with silver luster dust - in the assembly of the strings I made the all-important discovery that corn syrup is the perfect glue!! :) Rice crispies form the base for the neck - they're also covered in modeling chocolate...mmmm!!!

Punkin' Baby Shower :)