I have a friend who wanted a cake for her annual Oscar party. She didn't give me anything specific, so I ran with the idea. I sculpted the Oscar statuette out of gum paste. It is formed around 2 dowel rods so that it would stand up on the cake. The cake is dutch chocolate with dark chocolate ganache frosting. To smoothe the ganache, I had to keep heating the spatula with warm water. It was a little top heavy, but I'm proud of this one!