Sweet Kat's Creations: 3 Tiered Book Cake

What a unique and fun cake to celebrate a 1 year old's birthday! The cake was inspired by 3 of the birthday boy's favorite books with the focus on a scene from the book "Good Night Gorilla" where the animals all sneak out of the zoo (second photo). It was just so much fun replicating that scene.

I started creating the fondant figures a couple weeks in advance. You can see them starting to come together from this shot.

A bit random but one of my favorite animals was the little mouse dragging the banana...no idea why he was doing that (the book didn't explain it) but it was just pretty cute.

Before the party, I worked on the cake tiers. This is the top tier of the "open book" covered in fondant before I added brown fondant for the book cover and green fondant to cover the top of it.

Then I worked on covering the two "closed book" tiers in fondant.

Adding a red fondant cover to the bottom tier "book."

Working on the middle tier "book."

Middle tier, bottom tier and smash cakes covered in fondant.

I also created a fondant moon and put it on florist wires since the moon is a prominent visual of the story. I twisted a couple wires (instead of just using one single wire) to give it more strength and also added part of a toothpick to the bottom for additional support.

Then rice krispie treat "trees" were created. Super easy as I made them exactly the same way they are usually made but added green food coloring and shaped them into small balls. The trunk part of the trees were made by covering toothpicks in brown fondant. I then stuck the top of the brown fondant toothpicks to the rice krispie treat balls.

I stacked the bottom and middle tier book cakes, placed the open book tier on top, and arranged the fondant characters/rice krispie trees/moon to complete the cake.