I know, I know the best part of a birthday party is the presents - but for me it's the cake! That is creating the perfect cake for the chosen theme. My neighbor has a friend who's daughter was celebrating her 5th birthday. She loves Jake and the Neverland Pirates. I didn't want to do the classic pirates chest but I did want to include a lagoon and palm
trees.
This is how I made the palm trees...
I made a batch of royal icing and tinted it green. I turned a cupcake tin upside down and placed rounded pieces of foil over the cupcake molds. Using a leaf tip I squeezed the frosting out while moving my tip in and out making ripples in the frosting, then stopping and making a point at the end. 
Continue filling in adding three small leaves to crown the top of your tree. I always make a few more then I will actual need, just in case of breakage. 
Let dry for two days. When completely dry carefully remove the foil and turn completed palm leaves upside down; squeeze a dollop of green royal icing to the center and place a pretzel rod and hold for a few seconds then let dry. You will only need to let this set up for a few hours before placing completed palm trees into cake.
For the lagoon I tinted vanilla buttercream a light blue and spread it on the cake. I then topped this area with some pipping gel that I tinted blue. The contrast of the light blue buttercream and transparent dark blue gives the water a finished look. The sand is ground graham crackers that I topped with fine sugar glitter...I call it "pixie dust".
The mother was so excited about her daughters cake she commissioned me to do another one for her other daugter. See next post: Hollywood Birthday
This cake is beautiful, how can one even eat this thing. I just want to hang it up somewhere.
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