Creating Tinkerbell's Woodland (pt 1)

H chose a Tinkerbell theme and gave me full rein to do what I wanted. So I had a little fun.

I started with two 8" round cakes, made from a Duncan Hines Devil's Food mix. Before filling, I ring the cake with a stiff buttercream icing to act as a dam.


Then I fill the cake with a vanilla pudding mix made thicker than normal by reducing the milk to 1 1/2 cups instead of 2.


Add the second layer (whoops, looks like I overfilled with pudding slightly... oh well, I can fix that by adding some extra buttercream in the middle to fill in the hole).


Then I cover with buttercream. Again, I don't worry about smoothing it out as I plan to cover the whole thing with fondant.


Kinda hard to see here, but I've tinted some fondant a beige color and cut an 8" circle out of it after rolling to about 1/4" thick. I then laid the circle on top to create the top of my stump.