I have a order for this Friday. Has anyone make a big fat rat? Duff made one, does anyone know where I can find the photos. Or photos from other rat cakes. CC has 1 cake that I can find. Please help. oh and this is for a 9 yr. old little girl. Kinda funny for a girl to want 
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http://www.theyrecoming.com/killer_rat/rats.php
This one is kinda gross looking, so please be warned.
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2005/11/28/316084/DeadRatcake.jpg
just thinkin here hmmmmmmmmm.......I would use the large half egg pan that wilton has and maybe either a small wondermold pan or what I found at the local thrift store was some really nice 6" stainless steel cereal bowls (man I use them all the time either for measuring and weighing stuff or for baking the business parts of a taa taa cake.) But use whatever you can for the head part and then make the nose or something out of fondant or frosting. Duff never uses specialty pans he uses either round pans or square or rectangles and then carves the things out of those.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbiedoescakesnet/
aside from many other fab cakes this lady has some killer( litterallY) rat cakes - but some ideas perhaps worth a look either way 
Just wanted to add the little rat cake I found - so we could have all these guys in one place:
http://tinyurl.com/yl7lmc
(from craftster.org.)
here is the rat cake from here. A white rat sitting on a chocolate cake.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=27580
I love the cake found here on this site by Bayamoy found at http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_27580.html It seems much more appropriate for a 9 year old child. If she wants a rat cake maybe she knows domestic rats are intelligent, clean, loving able to be trained very easily and warm creatures. I dare anyone to come to my house for 2 hours and visit my dear pet Tinkerbelle and think the same about them after leaving. Don't get me wrong, I'm no exotic pet lover and I wouldn't want rats or mice running my home but when my daughter was in college (to be a vet) she brought her little brother a baby white rat. It was supposed to have been food for a snake and she brought it home. I was trying not to get grossed out when I looked at it (it was so tiny) and it backed into a corner and turned to me and looked so afraid he took hold of it's own tail for security. After that I knew it was one of Gods creatures that was not in charge of its own fate and needed a hand. It got mine, my husbands and my sons including my grown son and of course my daughter. She has taught us a lot of lessons in her own way about trust and promise and companionship. She has travelled to Texas, and Chicago and Nebraska and now lives in Tennessee with us. I know this is long winded and most of you reading (if you have read this far) think I'm looney but not all rats are disgusting. Not all rats are frightening and not all rats deserve to be bloody gory poisoned messes on top of a cake. Thanks to my daughter and Tinkerbelle, we have learned and at times have been utterly shocked by the intelligence and big heartedness we have been given on a daily basis for the past 21/2 years. Please make the cute rat cake. Maybe your customer has a similar story.
Oh don't worry. I was planning on makeing a cute rat. I have 2 rats, Ali and cia. (my DH thinks he is sooo funny, naming the rats after me HAHA so when said together you get my name Alicia) I wanted some ideas of other rats done. I don't think that the rat that I can make is going to be very real life looking more of a cartoon looking rat. Thanks so much! I'm sure that I'll have more questions on this one in the close future.
I agree with Sunny77's point, and am glad this will be a happy rat cake. I used to dislike rats until I actually "met" one- a beautiful orange and white gitrl named Lilly. SHe was my former roommates' and was sweet and intelligent and affectionate and fun and...it really brought me around, and now I am a rat lover and think they are wonderful pets and creatures.
Please post the finished rat cake!
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