Rower's Delight

This cake was for the yearly banquet of Edgewater Crew.   Both my kids row from this boathouse, and I have recently started rowing with the Master's program.  Rowing is a fabulous sport!  It works your legs and core and is a blast to do!  Anyway, about the cake...

This is the front of the boathouse, with little gum paste shrubs, bricks, picnic table and our sacred 'E'.  The grass was royal icing spread on the board with little clumps of grass from a grass tip.  The cake itself is the boathouse. There were two levels, one vanilla and one chocolate.

The sides of the cake (boathouse) were made and painted about a week before the cake was made.  They were also made from gum paste.  The red roof was fondant.  The little red doors in front and back, and all the bay doors were also gum paste and made to fit inside the walls.

This is the back of the boathouse.  I made the food trailer and a launch with a life preserver inside. They were both made of gp also, along with the dock.  It's hard to tell from the picture, but the water was a pretty blue shade of piping gel, laid over brown sugar to look like sand.  It was a muddy season this year, so we felt like we needed the mud along the side of the boathouse and next to the water.

On the back wall, the bricks have the crossed oars and bricks that spell out EHS (Edgewater High School).  I couldn't get the correct color of bricks with the paint (food color gel) that I had, so I did the best I could!  I learned a few things about painting gum paste!

This last picture I really like, just thought I'd add it!  Thanks for looking!