"Frog Cake" by Angela ´thedustyphoenix´ Apilado

I made this cake for an art class final.  Very open ended assignment.  We could do basically anything as long as we could talk about it with the art terms we'd learned.

I knew I wanted to do a cake and decided to go with a fantasy theme.  I started with the idea that for whatever reason I really wanted to make it tiered and I really really wanted to top it with a crystal ball.  After weeks of looking I finally found a Japanese fishing float on a beach trip that was the perfect size and weight to by my crystal ball.  The rest came together from there.

You can't see it in these pictures but there's a little magic wand piped in frosting sitting up by the crystal ball.  The pillars are meant to give a castle feel.

The top tier is frosted to be like a table draped with a purple table cloth.  The bottom two are supposed to be covered in cobble stones and a bit of ivy.  There's a castle on one side with a blue sugar moat, but it didn't work out too well.  The frosting coating the bottom was too thin to support the weight of the buttercreme decorations. 

It's hard to see in the pictures, but between the tiers is a round magic mirror trimmed in frosting ivy and flowers.

Then to tie it all together I decided to use a common familiar of wizards and threat from witches.  Three little magic frogs.  Maybe they're wizards helpers or maybe they were once princes, either way no one in my class hadthe heart to eatthem so they all cut chunks around them instead.