This isn't as good as some of the flip flop cakes on here, but the recipient loved it! Its a chocolate cake, covered in buttercream icing. The flip flops are a yellow cake also covered in buttercream icing. The "sand" is made from graham crackers which I put in the blender to make them super fine. I wanted to make the shells from chocolate, but I ran out of time, so I had to use real ones from our last trip to the beach!