Christine's Cakes: Dog Cake

I have seen many dog cakes and always wanted to make one. I finally had a chance. After much searching and thought, I realized that I would have to go with the laying down dog design. I really didn't need as much cake as would be needed for a sitting dog. Plus, this dog was designed after our old labrador who lays down almost all the time:)

I started out by baking two 9x13 chocolate cakes that I would use for the body. I then baked an almond cake for the head and legs. For this I used the Wilton ball pan and the Wonder Mold pan. I cut the ball pan in half and used this for the back legs and the second ball pan I used for front legs. The Wonder Mold I cut to make to fit the shape of the head and nose. The ears are just cake scrapes that I used to help visualize. The actual ears were made from fondant.

Then I put everything together with buttercream and iced the cake.

After that I rolled out fondant and covered the entire cake with it. I think the next dog cake though. I will just cover the body and legs first and use a separate piece to cover the head.

Once covered in fondant, I put scratches on the fondant to give it the look of fur. I then added fondant eyes, and a modeling chocolate nose, a fondant collar. To give the face more dimension I put more fondant on pieces at a time to give it more of a realistic look. Finally, since I do not have an airbrush system, I used different shades of luster dust to shades of color. Last but not least I put green buttercream around it to look like he was laying in the grass and mad a chocolate fondant bone.