Army Assault Course Cake

by Sarah Presto
(Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK)

I'm still fairly new to cake decorating, and this is my sixth 'assault' on the old fondant icing!! It is also the first cake that I have been paid for...£15! Is it sad to get excited over this?!? Anyway...first of all I marbled together some ivory coloured icing, some dark brown and some olive green and covered the cake board with this. I used a square cake and cut off one of the sides and glue it to another so that it was slightly more rectangle. I cut out the 3 little ditches. I then covered it in olive coloured icing...now this is where I went wrong and why it's not perfect; the icing kept tearing when I covered the edges 3 times. I think it's because the edges were too sharp, and the icing too thick? Also possibly because I'd then overworked the icing...ideas anyone?? Then I simply just did the figures out of fondant icing. There is also a bit of net in the front ditch (I'm also a sewer and luckily had this!), and the bits of wooden gravel are actually chocolate shavings!! Thank you for taking the time to look..any tips would be most helpful (",)