California Beach Cake

I made this cake for a scouting event, it was auctioned off and the donations were given to the scouts to further their 'education' at scout camp.
It was fun to make this cake, because I got to choose the materials and design.
I made the shells out of fondant (hand sculpted), everything is edible. The rocks were made from chocolate and coated with a candy coating (they are not handmade). I also painted a bit of coloring on the fondant shells.
The layers on the inside cake go as follows; Bottom: sandy brown. Middle layer: white. Top layer: sky blue.
The frosting was made from a simple butter-cream frosting recipe. I used paste-based food coloring to color the frosting. The sand of the cake is made from a mixture of raw cane sugar, and turbinado sugar (natural/unrefined brown sugar). To make the darker "wet" part of the sand I added a bit of brown food dye to the sugar.
I wanted the cake to have an artistic quality to it, cartoon-ish, some would say, thus I purposefully made the water blue, without any whitecaps. I thought it looked more artistic/less real that way.


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