The other Brunstad cake

This post is just for you, Maria. This is the cake that Kim Couts and I made for the start-up A-lag feast August 07. We used 18 large pound cakes (good for carving) and a ganache filling. The main area under the stevnesenter is a styrofoam base. The trees are chocolate-covered skewers and spun sugar and other than a few props, everything was edible. I was the carver and she was the painter, until the last day and a half when I became both as she was busy doing the rest of the food for the feast. We only had 3 days to design, assemble, carve and paint it, which was not nearly enough time to do justice to what we imagined in our heads. We never got the whole thing finished and were working on it right up to the time they carried it upstairs. I never got any good pictures of the whole thing but I got these from a friend. Maybe one of these days I will attempt it again, and if I'm lucky, it will turn out how I imagine it will!