Dog Speaks

03-12-09 This cake was created for a birthday party for a 2 year old who loves a particular show that airs on PBS. I hope that my attempt in recreating this talking dog in an icing form at least resembles her. I thought it would be a neat idea to use the phone cord to write the name, but it could have used a few more loops in the a and n. The border on top was rosettes, and black dot outline of a bone was in three places on the side of the cake. In between the bones were the letters of the alphabet, as Martha ate alphabet soup to allow her to speak. The cake itself was a white cake mix and butter cream icing. The cupcakes were nothing spectacular as far as decorating goes. The party was for a girl and since the theme was puppies I simply iced the cupcakes, used pink and purple sugar sprinkles and them piped on a little paw print on each one to tie them into the theme. It was fun to make, but a word of advice when it comes to using the black icing...only put it on the cake at the most the day before the cake is presented or else it bleeds, and keep it out of the refrigerator as the moisture in the fridge will also make it bleed. Hope you liked this one