Airplane Cake

Here is the airplane birthday cake I did on Friday for Mr. Mouse Man-- Ike. Oh the sad story that is about to begin after this photo was taken!

After I got it boxed up and ready to go, I was carrying the cake out to the car and punched the garage door opener. Up went the garage door, out went the curious little Mia dog--running free! The girls run after Mia. Meanwhile, big dog Sydney is running all about, very interested in the dog food bin in the garage, so she did not run out. At one point she even jumped in the car. I get her and the cake back inside the house and then go outside to look for Mia and the girls. That was where I made the big mistake-- dog alone in house with cake. In my haste I just put the box with the cake in it on the end table, so Sydney proceeded to help herself to the top tier of the cake. Oh yes. I go back in to find the top cake in crumbles all over the bottom of the box (ironically none on the floor!) I tried to remain calm and get it back upstairs to fix it. I sent Jared a text that read, "Sydney ate top tier of cake. Starting over!" I called the birthday boy's mama and explained that I had a "little mishap" with the cake. I go into the "my dog at my homework" story and told her I would fix it. She was so understanding about it, even laughing at it, and said not to worry! They are 3-year olds! Is that the nicest you could ever be or what? My hungry dog eats her son's birthday cake and she says, no big deal! We had also made cupcake toppers, so that was lucky. I also had some more little cupcakes in the freezer that I pulled out to give her. I ended up scraping all the crumpled crumbled mess out and cleaning up the bottom tier (It actually survived except the back where the top tier was dragged over it to it's death!) I re-piped the white borders and made a fondant topper to cover the supports in the bottom tier. I packed it all up again and made it over to her house in one piece! So, Sydney gets the bad dog of the month award and I have learned a valuable lesson- do not leave dog in house alone with fresh cake at dog eye level, especially close to her dinner time!