My little grand niece has wanted a dog all her short life. I made this for her 6th birthday. It was the Schnauzer cake I started last year before I injured my hand. (Poor girl, she even had to wait for her dog cake. Maybe someday a real one will make its appearance.) I made the head out of modeling chocolate with a styrofoam base. Even then it was super heavy so I ran a long wooden dowel thru the cake board. The cake is a WASC with buttercream filling, covered with white chocolate ganache and modeling chocolate. I ran into so many challenges that it took determination to be able to give her this long-awaited dog. The original head I had carved last year out of white modeling chocolate. I had hoped to be able to air brush it, but found that that wasn't successful with chocolate. So then I decided to use ACP and launched it directly on the head. Big fail. It went on as transparent and did a lousy job. There was no way I could match the MC body color. So, I had no recourse but to cover OVER the previous MC head. (That's where the excess weight came from.) I'd planned on making appropriate fuzzy ears out of MC, but during this whole painful ordeal, my air conditioning was out and I was working with soupy chocolate. So the ears ended up with no detail, made hastily out of tylose stiffened fondant, dried overnight in front of a fan. Quite frankly, I think the detail I most like is the quarry tile floor out of fondant for the cake board. It came together and she was thrilled. Today I am having a relapse and trying to clean a house that suffered while I suffered with this project!