Whew. This was my last big cake before going into semi-retirement to have my baby last year. The cake is on a 21"x21" plywood base. The cake is stacked rounds, from 12" up to 6" rounds, covered in choc. BC. RI lava, pretzel/RI palm trees, totem pole is RKT covered in fondant, detail in RI. Obviously dry ice for the volcano smoke. Why the Dixie plate for the sign? I had a gumpaste "shield" that replicated the invitation (see photos). But my DH, in trying to help me set up the dry ice, spilled boiling water all over the yellow gumpaste shield which was decorated in RI. It melted and I didn't have another. So we whipped out a dixie plate and used the only (yellow) icing I could salvage to write "Happy Birthday". It was the one and only cake disaster I've ever had, and it broke my heart. Oh well! TFL...