This cake came out so cute and I think it was the simplest cake Ive ever done. I used a real pineapple, I cute a hole in the bottom and gutted the pinapple and I stuffed paper towels inside to prevent the leftover juices from coming onto the cake. I sed brown sugar to give it the sand effect and I bought plants like you would put in a fish tank and cut them a lil bit and stuck them in the cake! It was a hit!