Shadow Boxing

Here is another retirement cake for The Husband's Chief. It was supposed to look like a shadowbox that is generally presented to the retiree. The stripes ended up being a bit large, so the "box" ended up looking very crowded without having a great variety of items in it.

Here is a detail of the ribbon rack. I meant to have a picture of The Husband's actual ribbon rack to compare, but he hid it somewhere.

Dog tags.

Coins. The Husband has a whole mess of coins that he displays on his desk. I was lucky enough to find this chocolate mold that was in the shape of the Air Force seal. It is quite detailed, but is a little hard to see in chocolate.

I placed a couple of them on the top of the cake, and ran them around the edge of the cake. I made them in white and dark chocolate for that.


Apparently it went over quite well.