Wooden Cake

How can a woodworker be involved in cake decorating?

My wife is a traditional cake decorator. She does the fancy thing with icing and makes sugary lace and that kind of stuff. An event called for an art deco cake. It could have been made from icing, but in that era much of the furniture was being made from wood. Our conversation meandered around possibilities.

Below is the result of that conversation. We used cheap decorations to light up the construction and even made a double layered board to mount the cake on a razzle dazzle deco pedestal. This collaboration was a happy week with my wife! We had fun talking about it. We had fun making it. The boy who had the birthday loved it!

Beneath the icing were layers of red velvet cake. MMMM YUM.