A Tribute to Alaska

This was my entry into the Cove Country Cake Competition in Bedford, PA this past weekend. It's a dummy construction with some modeled RKTs for the brim if the hat.


The theme for cakes was "Location, Location, Location". I chose Alaska as an homage to my DH's 1/8th Haida-Tlingit heritage. Those are the native peoples noted for their totem poles.

The bottom, 2" tier is a tribal drum, hand painted with traced tribal symbols.

The center tier is an 8" cube made to look like a Haida bentwood box with hand modeled and carved totemic icons made of modeling chocolate and painted in authentic colors (black, red, and blue-green).

The top tier is made to look like a Tlingit woven grass rainhat handpainted freehand with an authentic replica cartoon of several sea creatures (we think the one on the front is a seal/sea lion and the one on the back is a king crab). The core of it is styrofoam and the brim is modeled RKTs. The texture was done freehand, as well.

At the base of the cake on the back is a small red & black Haida button blanket with an appliqued thunderbird.

All of the coverings are fondant.

I had a wonderful time making this cake using inspirations from what I've actually seen in Alaska on several trips. It placed 2nd in the Aspiring Pro category.