Seaside Birthday Cake

 I made the seaside cake for a lovely lady who wasn't going to have a cake for her birthday but her family and friends said she couldn't have a party with out a cake and I second that :-)
After talking with her for a while I realised that she may not have any hobbies like gardening or knitting but she loves the seaside and goes regularly which is what inspired this cake. We starting talking about the seaside and I thought whenever you go to the seaside it is traditional even for us big kids to make a sandcastle and it would look cool on top of the square Victoria sponge plus little Georgie (I think that's her niece) prefers chocolate cake over vanilla so the sandcastle was for her mainly.
I started of by making a 10" Victoria sponge and a chocolate tray bake for the sandcastle. The main cake is covered in light yellow and baby blue fondant, I would normally take the top of the cake for a smooth finish but the delve that happened during baking because the parchment paper stuck to the cake and not the tin looked like a sand dune so it was a happy accident, I like them. To join the 2 colours I used the vanilla butter cream to create waves and sea foam and then decorated the sea floor with shells.
For the sandcastle I had the chocolate tray bake that I cut 2 rounds out one larger than the other and sat them on top of each other. After eventually dirty icing the sandcastle and 5 small marshmallow I covered it in a mixture of ginger nut and rich tea biscuits that I blended to create a sand texture, this also went over part of the main cake.
To finish the cake I made a little seagull and a bucket and spade out of fondant.