Hunting Cake

by Sharon Evans
Sharon Evans
I'm a self-taught baker and have done designer cookies for several years.  I started out baking cookies to treat the gang at work on holidays.  I got better and better at it and people were telling me, "These are wonderful, you need to go into business."  So, I took them up on it and started Sharon's Edible Art.  Now it's a paying hobby.  I try to design "outside the box" by trying different ideas to bring more 3-D images into the cookies.  I live in Carlsbad, NM.

Hunting Cake Front

Hunting Cake Back

The cake is a box mix of Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge.  It's covered with home-made buttercream frosting, then homemade rolled fondant goes over that.  The fondant tastes like marshmallows.  A camouflage ring of fondant is at the top and bottom of the cake.  Fondant fall leaves that have been veined in a press and fondant deer cut from cookie cutters circle the cake.  On top is a trophy of deer antlers made from a wire armature covered with white fondant.  This is probably the 2nd cake I have ever made using fondant.