My friend had given me the animals that she wanted me to use for the cake. From that I decided the rest of the design.
The cake was a two layer 12" chocolate cake with buttercream icing as the filling. The palm trees are made out of pretzel rods. I wrapped fondant around them and cut little snips in the trees with a scissor to make it look more like a palm tree trunk. The palm leaves are made out of fondant and attached with some wire. Only thing not edible on the cake :-)
The water is made out of piping gel, which I added some food color to to make it look like water.
I used some buttercream icing for some grass and brown sugar for some dirt around the trees.
