Beach Cake

For my niece's birthday, she wanted a beach theme. Top tier was one layer strawberry cake and the second layer was banana cake with cream cheese filling and sliced strawberries and bananas. Bottom tier is yellow cake with vanilla buttercream. All decorations were hand sculpted with gum paste. The sand was made from white sugar, brown sugar, and a mixture of sparkle and luster dust. When the light hit just right, you could see it sparkle. If you look closely the "t" in birthday is not crossed...that was fixed before the cake was picked up but all my pictures will forever have the "t" uncrossed.