We had a near tragedy last week when one of our little dogs, Rocco, was almost run over with my hubby’s Ford F-250 truck. Praise the Lord, my hubby heard my screams and stopped in time! Rocco suffered some major road rash along the inside of his legs as he was getting scooted along the driveway when the tire made contact with him. He was given pain meds and antibiotics and he is doing much better now.
So, as a way to say how grateful we were that he received such great treatment, I headed to the kitchen. I made 2 cakes, one for the ER animal hospital that we first took him to on that Sunday evening, and another cake for his regular vet who saw him the next day on his follow up visit.
I made 2 11×18 square cakes, vanilla with whipped cream buttercream and fresh strawberry filling. YUM!
I decided to carve the cake before I put the filling in and boy was that easier to do than try and cut through the dam and filling. After I carved it, I iced with regular buttercream and covered with a light brown fondant that I had leftover from an earlier cake project.
I then broke out my airbrush system and gave it a little color with the ivory airbrush color from Americolor.
I made 2 doggie bowls and filled them with some cereal that looks amazingly like dog food!
I filled the bowl with a little buttercream icing first so the cereal would stick.
Added a little thank you with Rocco’s signature and delivered the cakes to some very wonderful people that day. Thank you to all the vets and vet-techs who take care of our “kids”.
Kelly
