Outdoors Birthday Cake

This cake was ordered by one of my mother's colleagues for her boyfriend's 45th birthday. Originally she wanted kayak, running, badminton and hunting incorporated into the cake, but when I showed her the drawing of this one, she chose it, and I'm glad she did, because I really wanted to make it. I had a lot of fun making it, I rarely get to make cake's that are so personalized and with so much detail, but was pleasantly surprised that it didn't take as many hours as I had expected it to. The runner on the side was the biggest challenge, and unfortunately he didn't survive the transport. Luckily I suspected he wouldn't so I had made another figure lying down on the road as if he had tripped, and could quickly place him on the cake instead of the runner. I didn't get a picture of him though. The bottom cake is 12", the top 8" and the plate it's on 16". The bottom plate is plywood cut by my father because it costs a bl***y fortune to have cake drums that large delivered to Denmark, but I'm glad he could help because the cake ended up weighing a ton, and I'm not sure a normal cake board would have held when I lifted it. The cakes are vanilla with rhubarb-strawberry IMBC.

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