Sailor cake

Christmas is almost here....But I still had some time to practice my decorating skills this year. Today I finished decorating a cake which I started making yesterday. This is the surprise cake for the birthday of a Danish sailor. His wife ordered it after I made a surprise cake for her (check out my post "Birthday cake for Jorge's friend)). I hope he is gonna like it.  It took me almost 6 hours to do all the baking,chilling the cream and decoration....I am tired but happy about the result :) I can proudly say that I haven't done anything close to it before.

 First, I baked 2 rum-chocolate sponge layers. I added chopped walnuts  to the first one and coconut flakes with raisins to the second one. The filling had 3 layer- 2 layers of raspberry butter cream with a meringue layer in the middle. The cut should remind a smile of an African man :D I covered the covered with marzipan and decorated it with waves, sea stars, stones and sailor in the boat made of fondant. I used Rolled fondant made by Wilton. It very much reminded my childhood. I spent endless hours shaping some animal figures from modeling clay. It is so much fun! My husband actually saw me jumping from happiness and screaming when I finished the cake!!!

 The cake is assembled and ready to be covered with marzipan

I'll sail away, it's time to leave
Rainy days, are yours to keep
Fade away, the night is calling my name

You will stay, I'll sail away