pirate themed birthday! made 2 ten inch cakes. cut one in half and fillediced. put dowels in. cut other in half and filled/iced and stacked on top of other iced cake. used an imprint mat (duff's) to make the brown fondant lok like wood. cut pieces of fondant and placed on cake. used extruder to get rope to cover the seams. used gumpaste and gold wilton spray to make coins. cut piece of gumpaste and set over top the wilton wave former to make the map look like it had some wrinkles, etc. then used edible food color pens to decorate. 'sand' was brown sugar.