Oh, yeah. Dr. Pepper is THE extreme cola in America (and wherever it is found). I've tried most all bottled sodas from around the world and found Dr. Pepper is like sugar-coffee. One can in the morning is like the best coffee to wake you up. Coke is the proper soft drink, but Dr. Pepper is the drug.
My girlfriend came here from Germany on Nov. 5 and soon after discovered Dr. Pepper… now she is a DP junkie.
Here's some F'wanky from her:
We ate the cake yesterday. It was ok, but it is getting long in the tooth:
To make such a cake, follow Wilton instructions on making cakes, but design how you want to color the fondant and cut it for design. We had a semi-design I drew out a while ago. The hairs were sorta flung out, and they should have been better thought out. It was a first go at any kind of cake decor by me, so it's just a learning experience.
Instructions:
1. Bake a normal cake.
2. Make butter cream icing, ice cake together and slather tons on the outside.
3. Make glycerine fondant. It comes out white. Add coloring (Wilton cake colorings are $1.69 each at Michael's) and divide off all the lumps of colored fondant you want.
4. Roll and apply the big fondant for skin and shirt (applied to a cake board smeared with piping gel for "glue").
5. Roll and cut out other fondant applications. Use piping gel to glue down stuff which might slip off the cake.
6. Eat.
If you have a hand blender and recipes, making such a cake becomes a matter of design and application. Tons of housewives are doing such cakes, so why couldn't anyone? That was my reasoning. It IS tricky, though, because the fondant is a pain and you should make it all within one day or else everything dries too much and is hard to get back to proper elasticity.