Epic Cake sculpting completed! I have finished and delivered the cake for the firefighters. This time I took the cake to the main HQ where they keep the city's Ladder unit.
Pictures of stage one of the truck's construction.
Stage two of the cake's construction. Frosting the cake. Hi Tim!
Stage three adding on the wheels and the ladder.
A close up of the Wheel Wells.
A close up of some of the details. These are photoshoped to zoom into them so the picture quality won't be as good.
(Edit: Boy do I look tired!)
The finished cake and me posing with it. The final cake ended up weighing almost 40 pounds. on the side of the cake is written, "To Our Heroes. We Remember and Thank You." The truck itself is patterned after Ladder 3 one of the fire units destroyed when the towers collapsed down onto it. It's probably not a perfect recreation as all I can find are photos of the damaged truck which isn't much help.
I'd estimate that 99% of the truck is edible. That is leaving off the toothpicks holding on the hoses on the side and the foil on the gum. The cabinets are Big Red Gum, the hoses are black licorice, the Diamond-plate Extra gum(Thanks Wrigley's for dying the once perfect Spearmint GREEN!!!!!!
), the bumpers and ladder are sugar cookies, and the lights are Jolly Ranchers.
The firefighters posing with the cake on the bumper of the Ladder unit. One of the firefighters loved the little details on the cake including the diamond-plate, the cannon, and the little doors on the sides of the cake. In fact that was all one of the four could talk about was the fact I added in the utility cabinets onto the side.
