Cake, Beaches, and Bears-OH MY!

When some people think of Summer, they think of beaches.
Well of course that's what my bud Heather and I think.
Well, you know...along with frosting, marbel cake, and a blue jell-o ocean.
We were sitting around when our eyes came across a glorious sight- the Woman's Day Magazine.
But not a boring edition of the lovely mag, the silly Summer Cake edition!
And we abruptly began planning our bear cake.
=D
The day before we were to decorate the cake, I made two marbel cake layers. Yesss, the recipe calls for vanilla but I couldn't not have chocolate in the cake. So I compromised and bought the Duncan Hines Marbel Cake Mix and made two 8-in. layers.
Finally Saturday arrived. The Day of Decoration.
We went about dying the frosting and frosting the cake first.
Heather, frosting around the beach/lagoon















Below, It's a smiley face!














Once we frosted the cake we made up the jell-o following the magazine's directions. And then began the two hour wait...
(We killed an hour going to get ice cream. I love ice cream....yum....)
Anywho, in the last lonnng hour we started decorating the victims,er, bears.
Below, the bears. Aren't they cuuuute? Mine are on top, Heather's on bottom.














Compared to the palm trees, the bears are very easy to make and much more fun. We ran into disaster with the trees. Melting chocolate got everywhere....it looked like Hurricane Katrina had devastated our peaceful shores. So there aren't any great close ups of the trees (lucky you).
All in all, the cake came out ubercute!