Development's Ray Rotolo could teach Betty Crocker a thing or two. This stagecoach is one of the many cakes Rotolo has carved up for the birthdays of his five sons, ages 4 through 12. "The idea, originally, was that the kids would have some good memories of their birthdays, and that they could have cakes that other people couldn't," Rotolo says. The bug bit when the Rotolos baked a cat-shaped sheet cake seven years ago. Ray Rotolo, who always loved model-making, got hooked. "It became a challenge to me to see how elaborate I could make (future) cakes," he says. His oven has since baked everything from pirate ships and a Statue of Liberty to fire engines and several Starship Enterprises. One of his desserts won a Father-Son Cake Bake contest for Boy Scouts. Half the fun, he says, is finding edibles to detail his cakes. For this stagecoach, Rotolo rolled a sugar paste to build the wheels, adding Necco wafers and pretzel sticks. The "luggage" on top was shaped from warmed caramels, and the red "paint" is actually clever use of fruit roll-ups. The intricate cakes take several weeks to make and are sometimes held together internally with screws. His personal favorites have included a piano, a recreation of the Titanic, and the forementioned Enterprise. Is he taking orders? "They couldn't afford it!" Rotolo jokes.