Army Retirement Cake
Given only a day to design & create this army retirement cake, I was working through the night after my girls went to bed. The gel icing colors I had to use for decorating this cake were standard green, brown, black, & ivory. It took me trial and error to blend the colors to create the "army" camouflage colors. The camouflage was made with vanilla buttercream. I was asked to write: "Happy Retirement" as well as, "Well Done, Good & Faithful Servant" so I needed to make sure the background would allow the words to be legible. So I opted to keep the center an ivory color, and use forest green buttercream for the words. Waiting for the cake to cool, I created the dog tags, which were the only things requested. I had extra time in the morning, so I created the grenades and the bullets. I used cupcake gem balls for the dog tag chain, only had white pearl, so I painted them with edible silver dust. I also painted the dog tags wi...