Here is Daelin's birthday cake that I made for him. It is modelled to look like his snake Shadow. For those of you who asked, I used two bundt cakes, cut one on an angle and layerd them. Used the reserved cake to make the head and decorated. Not a terribly difficult cake but tricky nonetheless. I almost had an emergency when the head started to crack off during the decorating stage. It needed to be better supported by the body but I was unable to move it at that point. Luckily I had some shish ka bob sticks in the kitchen and about 4 of them inserted throughout the head held it in place really well.

The really funny thing was the kids reactions when we put the cake on the table. First they asked if I made it and I said yes. Then two of the kids said they didn't want any so I said ok. Then one little boy said "what if I don't like it?" I told him he didn't have to eat it so he said ok, he's have a piece. If you look at the picture you'll see a little girl with a black dress on, well she watched very carefully as I cut the cake (she was one of the kids who didn't want a piece). When she saw the boy next to her bite into his and realized that it was just a chocolate cake after all, she relented and had a piece. I wonder just what they were thinking would happen when I cut that cake open!!! Too funny...