Pictures of "Christmas in July" Cake

Here are a few pictures of the cake I made for my family's Christmas in July celebration.
The pictures are by LaVonne Anderson as posted on Smugmug. She has LOTS of pictures so check them out by clicking HERE

Tada! Here is the cake. The theme was everything "Christmas in July" throughout the years. The cake itself is shaped like a big hill since the cabin we stay at is on a hill. The green frosting is the "grass".

The topper is a pond with a canoe and sand (graham crackers) and a zip line. At the cabin there is a pond that we frequently go swimming and canoeing in, and one year they had a working zip-line that we would ride down and fall into the pond. Very fun and of course super safe ;)

The rest of the cake had random decorations made of fondant and/or scrap-booking paper. Theses are cards since my family have always been fond of playing card games such as 500, Pig-it & Hog it, and Hearts.

In this shot is a "plate of food". We always have an enormous amount of delicious food at any of our family gatherings, so it was only fitting to make a "steak, peas, and banana" out of fondant.

The LOVE decoration is based on our synchronized swimming routine (see picture below). We have floating "noodles" and sing while we dance (or flop) around in the pond. This is a common formation that we use. You can also see some happy fish, a candle, and a soccer ball in this picture. I had a little help making those decorations.

I promise this spells "Love" and the letter on the right was an "e"... it was just a little hard to float while singing :)

Other decorations on the cake were a butterfly, snowman, sun, flower, golf club and golf balls. This was a fun cake to make and it was even more special because of all the family touches.
Yay for warm fuzzy feelings (and happy mouths when we ate it)! :)