Sea Turtle Cake

This is the sea turtle fondant cake that I entered in the County Fair 2013.  It was sculpted out of rice crispy treats and covered in icing.....then white fondant.  Our homemade fondant....marshmallows, powdered sugar and water.....Super Easy!!!! 

Then once the cake was covered I  used food coloring like water colors and painted the turtle.  It was so easy and fun to do.  There are such a variety of sea turtle shells that I had to google some photos and just choose the one I liked best!  


I then painted the turtle green, with highlights of yellow.  I put some dark brown spots on it's flippers and head.  I painted a black dot for the eye and then sculpted an eye lid out of fondant, and painted it.

 It won the "Best of Show" ribbon at the county fair, 2013.  The judges said it was because it looked just like a real turtle, Ha!  Too fun!  It took about an hour from start to finish and cost less than 5 dollars to make.  Fondant, rice crispies and food coloring make the easiest cakes!!!!  We normally would sculpt the cake from actual cake, but we didn't have time to bake, cool, freeze and then sculpt it, so we reverted to rice crispy treats.  :)