The Tr-"ace" of Cakes

Here are my Aug 2008 cakes.
For Timm and Trevor's birthday- we went with an olympic theme, Opting to utilize the event pictograms (stick figures) as backgrounds for several different cakes. We built 3 cakes. We originally intended to make a stack cake (wedding style) - but they looked stupid, so we relented.
I did get Martha's kick-butt german chocolate recipe (which was a huge success). That is topped off with my first jaunt into chocolate "sculptures" I used white chocolate to draw the pictogram for the olypmic logo and then completed the rest with cherry chocolate chips. It came out pretty well, but it was HUGE! (and heavy - I had a hard time getting it to stay upright.) Lesson learned.
Tanner wanted a P-39 cake. We used a combination of cake and rice krispie treats (as the wings) to get the shape we wanted. We made propellers out of dyed white chocolate - but they got eaten before his b-day. (who could have done that???)