Corporate Cakes
Southside Speedway Stock Car
The Southside Speedway has been a Richmond institution for over 50 years. The owners of the Speedway ordered this cake for their staff to thank them for their hard work this year. It was a small departure from my normal car cakes – normally I have the car sitting up on a platform so that it looks as though it is sitting on wheels. However, this time I based my design on the “Car of Tomorrow” stock car design, which has VERY low clearance. I think I prefer the look of my normal method, but I do think that the design works. I spent a lot of time working on the logo for the Speedway. The “Southside Speedway” text was...
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This was a cake done for a company who had a group attending the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional in Washington, D.C. They wanted to have the logo for the Open remade three-dimensionally – if you see any of the press or coverage of the event, you can see if I succeeded. The image contained a stylized version of the U.S. Capitol dome, with banner and text in front. I especially liked making a miniature version of the Indian statue on top of the dome, because my Great Great Grandfather was an iron molder and helped create the actual statue. One of the trickiest parts was creating the banner in front, making it stand up three-dimensionally, but still...
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