I simply LOVED making this cake, it was so much fun! For a man turning 40, as a present from his wife. She gave 'carte blanche' in designing the cake, but I managed to put in a lot of personal details. When she came to collect the cake, tears came to her eyes, she was so touched! What a great feeling to make someone so happy. So here goes: The cake is a two layer carrot deluxe (own recipe) with sweetened cream cheese filling and vanilla buttercream as icing. I used both marzipan and vanilla fondant for decorating. The cakeboard is decorated as a piano, using fondant. The red cake is marzipan with musical bars impressed and fondant musical notes attached. The top cake is fondant decorated with '40' in red out of marzipan. The top of the upper cake is edible musical sheet which was handmade. The notes are from his favourite song! The topper is a little dalmation puppy as he simply loves dogs. I chose the Dalmation as the colours matched so perfectly with the rest of the cake. I especcially made his colar red! The puppy is made out of fondant. The sides of the sheet music are finished of with little hearts as a symbol of his wife's love. Made out of marzipan as are the roses in the middle! Between the two cakes is a cd with his favourite song (same as the sheet music) just as a little surprise. The cake comes with a side cake and matching cupcakes. The sidecake has a muscial chip, playing 10 seconds of the favourite song when you push the bottom... Side cake is also marzipan and fondant decorated. The cake is a fluffy vanilla two layer minicake with apricot, strawberry and whipped cream filling. Vanilla cupcakes with fondant decoration. I think I've got it all.. just drop me a line if you have any questions. Thanks for looking and I would really appreciate any comments!!!