A Combine Pretty Enough To Eat

A Combine Pretty Enough To Eat COMBINES Miscellaneous A photo appeared in Green Magazine recently of a birthday cake shaped like a Deere S690 combine complete with a draper header auger and catwalk It was a big hit for Maverick Reiber’s 11th birthday The cake was baked and decorated by his father Eric Reiber a fire department captain in Pullman Wash The big cake has an 18-in header and it took 15 lbs of sugar to make He makes large amounts of sugar frosting to form the combine parts In the past he also made a Deere excavator complete with a bucket thumb and hydraulic cylinders A Case field cultivator he made for his own birthday took 6 weeks and “was the monster that overtook our life ” Reiber laughs “It’s not a hard thing to do and the results are impressive ” Reiber says of the “heavy equipment” cakes he is known for His son’s cake was a hit and easily fed 12 people The first cut was the most painful “My wife made me cut it She said ‘I’m not destroying that thing ’ ” Reiber laughs “In seven minutes it was a pile of crumbs ”

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