Speaking of Cakes...

Here are pictures of the cake I made for the hubby's birthday two years ago. I have better quality pictures somewhere, so when I find those, I'll repost.
The theme of the cake was inspired by the cover of Woman's Day magazine, although I changed it a bit and added a canoe in there too as we canoe frequently.
It took me a few days to decorate all of the teddy grahams with royal icing. I didn't have a cake decorating kit then (as I do now) so all of the piping on the teddy's was done with a toothpick.
All of the surfboards and blankets were created out of Airhead bars and the sand was made out of crushed vanilla wafers. The flavor of the cake was his favorite - carrot cake with creamcheese frosting.

What I didn't factor in was the level of humidity on the day I decorated the cake. The place we lived at the time did not have air conditioning and being that it was a very humid August day, everything did not go as planned including having the frosting fall off in globs. I also had created palm trees for the cake which folded in half five minutes after being placed on the cake. Fortunately I had enough "sand" to cover the mishap and decorated the rest of the cake ten minutes at a time - ten minutes in the fridge, ten minutes out, ten minutes in the fridge, and so on.

Cake decorating has only gotten easier for me from here!