Royal Rumble Birthday Cake (September 2012)

Yellow cake filled and iced with chocolate buttercream decorated with edible wafer paper (WWE logo and birthday message). The rest of the decorations are not edible.

Million Dollar Championship Belt (May 2011)

This cake was supposed to be the Million Dollar Championship Belt: yellow cake carved to look like the belt buckle, filled with Nutella, iced with poured buttercream, and decorated with sugar pearls for the diamonds.

Lessons learned:

• Poured buttercream does not work well on a carved cake that has small, fragile pieces on it, like the points of the dollar signs. The poured buttercream tore off all the small pieces and made a big mess. If I had to do this cake again, I would probably try fondant.
• Placing all those sugar pearls was quite tedious. I lost my patience half way through so that's why they don't look quite right. However, the cake recipient is a huge DiBiase fan so he figured out what it was supposed to be right away! Once again, fondant would have probably made life a lot easier here.