Rabbit Valley

This is my second entry; I just loved this shirt design when I first saw it; and thought it was way too complex to do a cake; so I decided to try anyway.

I decided to do a 3-tier cake: 7, 5, and 3 inches. I started with standard yellow cake mix, but added watermelon jello to the 7" layers, and grape jello to the 5" layers- just wanted to see how it would taste- (pretty good but nothing special)

I wanted to do a mix of 2-D and 3-D decorations and incorporate as much of the crazy as I could. After doing the baking and throwing them in the freezer I started on some of the decorations. I made the melty guy, little guy w/knife and fly figures out of gumpaste- with the heat and humidity they took forever to dry.

The next day I started on the 2-D figures, made by coloring white chocolate and piping onto waxed paper. I did the rabbit, blue guy and dinosaur snake in 2-3 hours I think.

A couple days later I woke up to find I had forgotten to put up the baby gate in the kitchen, and one of my Great Danes, Cupcake, had decided to eat my fly and melty guy. She's lucky she's my princess:)

Today I decided to go for it and see how much I could get done. I was decorating from about 1 to 11. I covered the cakes and board in fondant- had some problems getting it flat, I don't usually, maybe the heat? And then I started painting w/gel colors and gin. The wrinkly fondant actually worked well w/ the skull guy, and I decided to go 3-D with the green goop and make it out of fondant. After I put all the layers together I added the decorations I had already made and had to melt up some more white chocolate to make the sun, moon, and monkey guy. All the chocolate decorations were attached by sticking into the fondant and royal icing.

I wasn't able to fit in all the elements of the shirt (the other little guys/daisy) but I am pretty pleased with the result-but very tired:)