Treasure Map Cake
One of our good friends got married on Saturday. Months before the wedding the groom asked me to make a treasure map cake. Of course I said yes! I took TONS of pictures and tried to be selective about the ones I chose to include in this post. Still, I think I have over 40 pictures here so you have been warned. Now you can sit back and enjoy looking through the pictures of a cake that took me three days to make! I made my own fondant for all of the decorations. Since fondant alone doesn't hold its shape very well, I added tylose powder (it is used in making gumpaste). It worked like a charm. I kneaded it in after adding the color until it went from playdough consistency to clay consistency. I let the palm tree leaves harden on upside down muffin pans for 1 day before I assembled them. The 1st layer. The 2nd layer The 3rd and final brown layer. The fondant showed the bumps and unevenness of the rice krispies a lot more than I anticipat...