A Sad Kangaroo Leaves America

At the beginning of this school year, I met an awesome Australian exchange student named Caspar.  Now, unfortunately, is his time to go back to that strange land with it's weird animals.  I promised to make him a cake before he left, so, in order to commemorate his return back to his homeland, I made, with the help of my friend John, a sad kangaroo holding an American flag.  It took us a total of six hours to make the cake, but that was partially due to us only having one 8 inch round cake pan to bake all of four cakes.



Here's the all put together kangaroo at the going away party crying and holding it's American flag.

It was received with amazement by my Australian friend who will be missed by all of us Americans.

 We started by leveling all the cakes and then started stacking.

We used a combination of vanilla and almond frostings to frost the all cakes.  

As you can see, we used a mixture of cake types including chocolate, funfetti, and strawberry to make it neapolitan.  The colored frosting is from another project that I made while waiting for all the cake to bake off.

Next I started carving out the shape of the kangaroo.

Next we made legs, a tail, and the head and neck out of rice krispie treats.

Next we frosted the body.  We didn't have enough table room to roll out enough fondant to cover the entire cake with head on, so we covered this part, and then the top and patched them together.

We had some trouble keeping the head standing up, but after adding more internal support, the head successfully stayed up without the supporting stick you see.  The baby joey was made out of pure fondant.  Note, brown is a difficult color to achieve from white fondant and requires copious amounts of food dye only to have it look like a giant pile of...well, you know.

Here is a back view.