The Doodle Cake

[Camilla and Darwin]

Well, I have been practicing layered cakes for the past few months, and I'm down to the last week. Next week is my friend's wedding, and I am doing her cake (panic stricken look). I decided that my last practice would be to just make a 14" round (which is the size of her bottom tier) to make sure I can work with something that big without any problems. That went by without a hitch... and I was left with a huge white fondant covered cake that could serve 75 people. What to do with it? Well, I have been wanting to make a "doodle cake" for quite some time so I made some for fondant and whipped up some last minute cake decorations.

It didn't exactly turn out like I hoped it would, but I guess it's still pretty fun. The dogs came out a lot more cartoon like and generic than I wanted them to... but I really couldn't help that. I realized during the process that making realistic looking fur and realistic looking dogs is WAY above my skill level. So my results were a little... elementary. There was still a lot of white space left so I made some paw prints and a "DK" to finish it off... after all, I did use DK doodles for inspiration! Can you guess what doodles I used for my inspiration? .... I didn't think so. They aren't realistic enough. :-)

Now... does anybody know what I can do with 75 servings of lemon filled white cake? Ha!

From left to right, Karen's "Jackdoodle" (miserable attempt to copy his cuteness, I know), Jane's "Noah", "Lucy" of Lucy and Sophie, and Kyoko's "Charlie"

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Whoopee. The photos came thru. I love it. You did a wonderful job. I want one for MY birthday!

[Michele, Biscuit & Mo]

WOW! This is FANTASTIC! I wish had a creative talent like that. It looks fantastic - I should have you make one and ship it to me! Way to go!

[Zoe, Benny and Tyler]

Wow wow wow, this cake looks so great. I also love the paw prints on the side. Well done and looking at the picture makes me want some cake although it is already 10.30 pm now here.

[Anna and Achilles]

unbelievable!!!!!! How far can you ship one? I think Achilles would be cute in fondant!

[Frannie & Callie]

Camilla - this is absolutely wonderful! Lots of kudos to you! If I could, I'd be in Utah this weekend to help you eat that yummy cake (and then I'd want to bake with you because while I'm great with cookies and small pastries, layer cakes continue to be an issue for me!). Your friend is LUCKY that you're making her wedding cake!

[Joy Williams]

Camilla, what an awesome job you did! A lemon filled white cake sounds delish, but I would hate to cut into this one!!

[Kendra K. Rhoton]

OMG!!! Can you make one of these for me!!!

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

Wow - that is awesome! Too cute!

[Camilla and Darwin]

Nancy, I don't know why you can't view them, but those kinds of things happen to me all the time here on DK. I feel crazy, so it's good to know I'm not the only one!

[Camilla and Darwin]

Thanks everybody for being so nice! I'm not very experienced, so I don't think I'm ready to "set up shop" so to speak. Even if I was, my apartment complex won't allow any kind of business being run out of apartments. I'd get evicted! It's a really fun hobby though. I am planning on doing a culinary degree at some point, with an emphasis in pastries. Hopefully then I'll actually have a house and can do it for a profit. (DH is not thrilled about the non-profit nature of this hobby... ha ha.)

I wish I had more people living in the area so we could hold more romps, we usually only get 2 people at our Utah doodle romps. COME ON UTAH! My family is SO sick of cake by now! :-)

I don't think the salvation army or food bank will accept it, as it is homemade, and they usually have policies about that kind of thing. I'll have to think of something.... maybe I'll just leave it out on my apartment's communal picnic table and let people go at it.