Michelle requested a cake created for Russ to represent his years dedicated to the North River Fire Department, His time spent at Desoto Motorsport Speedway as a Rescue Track Team, and for his love with Drag Racing.
His badge number was #10 retiring as a Captain. His hat was yellow. The tires represent the ones on the dragsters.
Bottom Tier: represented Drag Racing with a Hoosier Tire off of a dragster cake wrapped with a fire hose shooting water (water created from pulled sugar.) Hose sculpted from gumpaste.
Middle Tier: red to match the fire engine with his name and flames
flavor: Lemon Curd/ swirled raspberry white chocolate cake
Top Tier: Russ retired from the North River Fire Department as a Captain. His helmet was yellow, #10 with a eagle on the top of the helmet. His badge and eagle created from gumpaste and fondant. The helmet was sculpted from chocolate cake/chocolate ganache, edges of helmet was rice krispies/ganache/yellow chocolate clay, covered in yellow fondant. flames were created from fondant hand cut and hand painted.
Cupcakes: flavors
Monkey Lala - chocolate kahlua cake, coconut cream filling and baileys irish cream buttercream
Caramel Apple - vanilla cake, caramel apple filling and brown sugar buttercream
Many of his team, friends and family joined to celebrate with Russ for all the many years that he had dedicated to North River Fire Department. The party was created by his wife Michelle, an awesome party, food created by his friend Cory Thomas, and party held at Cory & Marci in Myakka. It was great to celebrate and honor Russ for all that he has accomplished and for all that he has helped through the years.
