I have a cake to do with a beach theme with 2 pair of sandels enclosed in a heart of flowers. The picture was too big to attach. I was thinking of painting the water scene on the side of the (top tier,and bottom tier would be square with sandels and the flowers. I would mold the figures. As far as the constrruction I would make the round tier more off center the make room for the sandels and flowers. Please give me any ideas you may have on this. I can email anyone the picture. Please help.

it's a small thing, but cookies are allways great for sand.

Hope to see the cake when it is done.

I saw on Food Network where they used dried cake crumbs for sand.
Jacqui

all the following will work ...and can even be mixed together for interesting effect:

crushed vanilla wafers (medium and light color mixed)
crushed saltines (light color)
crushed graham crackers (medium to dark color)
brown sugar (light or dark)
cake crumbs (as mentioned by ladyonzlake)
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any edible thing that will make a fine crumb of the right color --- tho' those above are the most often used.

somebody (sorry) mentioned something called Brownulated sugar for sand.

Turbinado sugar - "Sugar in the Raw" - makes great sand.

Go with the cookies or cake crumbs - I used the brown sugar and it looked great, but was a bit tricky to work with and it gets hard so it is not too tasty by the time you finally cut into it.

I did a beach themed wedding cake (in photos), and I used the ground up pecan sandies, looked awesome, and very realistic. I got the idea on here and as ususal it was a good one.

Thanks for the info. I'm during a trial version this weekend.

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