Inukshuk cake

An edible trip to Churchill Manitoba for a 60th birthday celebration.  

After the research and making of this cake I was left wanting to visit the town to see some of the amazing sites.

Front view
  The top tier is a 8" vanilla cake with chocolate chip butter cream icing.
The bottom 12" tier is a chocolate cake with raspberries and vanilla butter cream icing.

Back view.

Getting the grass to overlap the rock nicely.

The biggest challenge of this cake was trying to make "nice" fondant evergreen trees.
I loved how they turned out in the end but it took a lot of patience.  I came up with this method on my own after not loving what ideas were out there for fondant trees.
 I'll have to make my own YouTube video :)

My fondant Ashuanipi River.
I mixed a pure blue and then accented with more blue for the streaks.

One of my favorite things.  My Norwex netted cloth.  It grabs the sticky fondant  and leaves me doing very little scrubbing.  Makes 6 batches of fondant clean up not so scary.

Rice Krispies treats covered in fondant to resemble rocks for the inukshuk.

The Inukshuk assembled and airbrushed, supported with dowels.
Two American Bitten birds rest on the rocks, They are one of 275 species of birds found up in Churchill MB one of the hottest bird watching spots in Canada, 

Two hand painted fondant Northern Pike fish jumping upstream.
 Fondant wooden canoe at the bottom of the fall.

Fondant Polar bear which are often spotted in Churchill, MB.
Except not for the fondant part:)  Waiting to grab lunch..

Top view of the cake.
I added lots of yummy chocolate edible rocks...so good.