This is the Tinkerbell cake I made for my daughter's 4th birthday.

The mushrooms were made of rice krispie treats covered and decorated in coordinating colours of fondant. The top of the mushrooms were made in a small pyrex mixing bowl and the stems were made in large yogurt containers.

The tree stump was made from two 3-inch layers of chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream between layers. I crumb coated the tree stump and left it overnight before I covered it in more chocolate buttercream. Then I used a grey buttercream to make the indentations of bark. I pulled the grey buttercream through the chocolate buttercream using a toothpick. If doing this, make sure to add some swirls and knots into the wood grain. The tree stump has a couple of tree rings on the top along with "pixie dust" (edible gold and pearl shimmer dust). It has also been adorned with royal icing flowers and leaves (made a couple days in advance).

After adhering the mushrooms and tree stump on the cake platter (a 20" x 20" piece of white mdf with finished edges) with buttercream icing, the platter was covered in a thin layer of green buttercream and then with coconut coloured with green food colouring. Then the little pink royal icing roses were set out to read "Happy Birthday". It didn't show up as nicely as I had hoped, so I used white royal icing to write it over the roses.

This cake was a complete success. Even the boys at the party loved it (just don't eat the pixie dust - apparently it doesn't taste good when you have so much!). The best part is that it doesn't need to be perfect. No mushroom or tree stump is exactly the same! :)