EURO-SPEC CAKE

From start to finish with out the hours of work! If you're up for a challenge try a carved cake.

Step one was to build the structure to support the cake. If I could guess, the finished cake weighs somewehere around 50 pounds so making sure the support system won't crumble, at the worst time of course, save heartbreak from happening.

Now it's time to build. As you can see, the bottom half of the cake is chocolate and the top half vanilla. The two flavours are separated by a layer of fondant and then a cake cardboard. There are wooden dowels in the chocolate layer to support the vanilla cake. Don't try to make the cake pretty, your goal right now is to get the rough stucture to look like a semi truck.

Starting to look like a semi truck!

It's now time to make it look pretty. Once you've crumb coated the entire cake cover it in a thick layer of butter cream. Chill it for about half an hour then smooth it out by placing a layer of plastic wrap on the area you want to smooth out and gently rubbing with your fingers. Now the fun starts. If you are working from a model, take the most prominent features and translate them to the truck.

Now the fun starts. If you are working from a model, take the most prominent features and translate them to the truck.

The finished truck. Now the scary part, delivery! Let's hope the truck survives it's last trip before demolition!