Chemistry Book Cake

I promised my boss that I would make her a cake before I left, so what would be more appropriate for a college bookstore than recreating the most used book on campus: Petrucci's General Chemistry.  I wanted to recreate the custom edition for my college, but due to being low on supplies from packing up my apartment, I was only able to do a basic cover.

My inspiration and final product.

I started with two layers of funfetti cake.  It doesn't have to be funfetti, but that was all that I had left in my cupboard.

I wanted to cover the cake in fondant, but I was also low on that, so I decided to make it into the cover of the book.

It would have worked well as the cover, if it was slightly larger.  I had to patch a couple of places to make it cover the whole book.

I decorated the book as best I could with my limited supplies.  Due to the patch work required on the cover I decided to turn the book from "New" to "Used"

I added a sticker made of icing and colored with food dye to make the book more believable.