Sea Turtle Graduation Cake

This weekend was my sister’s college graduation. As a present, my mother and I made her a cake. Her degree is in biology and she volunteers at the local sea turtle hospital, so it seemed fitting to make her a sea turtle themed graduation cake. The pictures below show a little bit of how I pieced it all together.

I started out by molding two sea turtles out of Rice Krispies. I then colored white fondant with copper Wilton gel icing coloring. I rolled it out until it was 1/8″ thick and covered...