Don't let the dogs out

       'Is it a cake?' asked the birthday man.
     
       Yes, it's a Maritoni Velvet Deluxe cake!

      The wife's concept was a big bike with two dogs chasing the driver. 

      Being a neophyte in the cake's world, I reckon I couldn't make it. However, it is in my nature that the more the task is so challenging to me, the more I love to go heaven and earth to make it.   I was in the Internet every now and then to look for any tutorial videos or photos. There's one video, but it's about a big motorbike cake which wasn't helpful to me. Again, I ended downloading photos of  motorbikes and bits by bits I moulded every part of the motorbike cake topper. Bingo! I had put them together and that inspired
me, of course. 
   
        What about the driver?

In a zoomed in tiny photo I gazed and patiently moulded the driver. Setting it on top of the motorbike was another story. I reckoned to make a parcel over the tank to hold the driver, yet I opted to lengthen the seat towards the tank. Obviously it worked.
                                                 
The scene was on a private road filled with gravel.To make an intense effect, I tilted the motorbike towards the big stones alongside the road.  Making the fondant dogs was the final adventure.  It seemed difficult, but with my magical hands, it turned out to be easy. I even teased my hubby to be good to me,  otherwise there'll be loads of dogs chasing after him.


       Mission accomplished!

       But what's more about the cake?
     
       Just by coincidence, a story about the dogs came up. Roan has two dogs, I know. Because I used grey fondant for the road, I created a brownie dog and to make a variance, I created the next dog a Dalmatian look alike. Little did I know that the brown dog is Lyka, one of Roan's dogs, and the Dalmatian dog is the neighbour's dog, which is Lyka's boyfriend!    

         It's not only a mere cake. Indeed, there's a story behind Maritoni cakes.