Backhoe Digger Truck Cake

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This one for a friend who bid on a cake from me at at auction for her school. Her husband bid pretty high to get the bids up, and in the end, ended up with it, so felt I needed to go the extra mile for this one. Looking back there's a lot I'd refine about it, but at the time I was very happy with it. I wish the windows were a little straighter and that I had carved the front more accurately, but it still looks great the way it was. I had the hardest time figuring out how to make the 'arms' of the hoe, but in end I wound up using candy/gum cigars that I found in the perfect yellow color. The backhoe actually didn't fit on the base cake (which I covered in crushed oreos to look like dirt), so I had to create a bit hole for the backhoe to sit in (and I filled the scooper with the oreo 'dirt'). It just made it... but the base cake probably needed to be 5 inches or so longer.

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