The process started days before it's required completion date. If I'd been blogging at the time I would have posted a progress report each day! Definatley not a one day job.
First I made all the decoration pieces so they'd have time to dry. Leaves cut from green fondant, trees trunks rolled from brown fondant. Each small pebble was rolled between my fingers and I ended up with a bag full. I had left over green fondant already rolled out and that's where I got the idea of using it as a border for the bottom of the cake.
Then I got to the cake baking part. Yes, it's packet cake, but lets get over that and get to the fun part of decorating! I used a slab base and half a dolly varden for the mountain.
The day before completion date, I coloured plain vanilla icing with 'leaf green' and used the chocolate frosting that cake with the packet cake for the sides.
Still on the day before, I dressed the cake with nearly all the decorations. The palm trees had to wait as I wasn't confident that they'd stay standing.
And lastly, I added in a few finishing touches, including the lazy trees. The poor lion looks like he's getting sucked into the top of the mountain.
