How to create raised paths?

I have CS2. Let's say that I have a complex path (not just a circle or square but really funky). What I want is for Illustrator to make a 3D shape out of that and the shape should be kind of similar to how a cookie rises in the oven.
For instance, something like the link (except my paths are not reducible to circles and/or straigh lines):
http://www.fotolia.com/id/698804?by=serie
Now, the closest I came to that is doing the beveled extrusion with "plastic shading" option, but that seems to only create the plastic shading on the bevel and the top just stays solid filled and so the 3D look is not there. Or I can turn off the cap but then I get a nice 3D ridge around my path and no fill inside the path.

I was joking about criticizing my work it was only crudely drawn and 
certainly had plenty of problems.
AI's 3D is not intended to give the user full 3D capabilities it is 
just a tool to give the use some basic capabilities never intended to 
replace 3D programs.
The idea was to give the user who need to create a simple 3D object 
that really did not warrant the expense of purchasing a 3D program and 
mastering the nuances of that program.
It can do for the user what it is intended to do and with some clever 
adaptation perhaps a little more but it is not a 3D program it is just 
an effect. It was my hope that eventually it would evolve to something 
more if it got a lot of user attention and it does get that here in 
the forum and there are users that have more needs than just this 
basic 3D and it seems like a lot of them.
However as of today as we see there has not been an advancement in 
this area so I hold little hope there ever will be.
There are many people here as you can see who complain about it the 3D 
effect but that is a bit unrealistic since it is only an effect. What 
they are really saying is that they hope the
illustrator evolves to the point that there will be a 3D space and 
modeling capabilities, I don't know if that will happen but the 3D 
Effect is not probably capable of such a task.
But it is fun to speculate.

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