After lots of trial and error I cut the rod down and was able to get the top half of his body on! Thats what I love about this competition, without any clients to worry about, you can laugh at your mistakes and then you learn from them, hopefully! The only way to get the rod out would be to unscrew it the whole way down and out because I messed up the end of the rod when I cut it, so that wasn’t really an option. Well, because then the hole you put in the board under his tongue area wont be in the right place for the rod to fit through. I hadn’t stuck to my plan when I carved him, thinking oh why not make him a little fatter, you can’t tell anyways. I had a few set backs… After decorating the top portion of his body separately I went to put it on and… nope. I used fondant and modelling chocolate and a mix to cover and decorate the cake. His body was made of chocolate cake with milk chocolate ganache. The back “mountain” portion was made of alternating vanilla and chocolate cake with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream and peanut butter filling. I started out with a base board and one threaded rod for support up his leg. It doesn’t hurt that he is a shark eating his own leg! As always I wanted to pick something that would challenge me and I fell in love with Sharkbro. I knew nothing would ever measure up to Ralph, but I love Threadcakes so I wanted to do it anyways. Picking a design was kind of double hard this year. My 2015 Threadcakes entry – Sharkbro by Tony Riff.
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