Moose Treats: "The Jungle Book"

As pretty as cakes can be on the outside, nothing is more disappointing than biting into a piece of cake that resembles stale cardboard.

Today's goal: fill, stack, crumb coat, and cover cakes in fondant.

Step 1: Assemble your filling ingredients. I have here blueberries sliced in half, strawberries at a medium dice, cherries roughly chopped, and finely grated lime zest.

Step 2: After slicing your cake in half top with whipped topping (holds up better than real whipped cream), to this layer I added the blueberries, strawberries, and lime. Add a layer of cake, repeat for up to 4 layers of cake with 3 layers of filling

Step 3: Level off the top of the cake and put a thin coat of buttercream frosting, also known as "crumb coating"

Step 4: Cover with fondant (forgot to take pictures while I was doing this process, it was 6am and I had not had my coffee yet)

Step 5: Stack your layers, add decorations, and admire your work.

***Next multi-level cake will come with instructions on how to stack tiers***

Here are some close-ups of my critters. The animals are all made from marzipan, leaves and birthday lettering on "wood planks" were made from fondant.