Do y'all remember when I briefly mentioned

a [fake] groom's cake?

Well, here's the deal - 
The night before the wedding we hosted a nice little
 'pre-wedding' dinner at Portabello's in Downtown Disney

 Here's the invite -
[y'all know I love to make those!]

It was very nice and relaxing 

to all be together to celebrate Drew and Haley 
the night before their big day.

 And I wanted a groom's cake;

[we knew they were going to have a beautiful wedding cake at the reception]

- just a plain cake with Mickey's and flags, 

something like this -

[See how my brain works --
three different ideas for the top --]
But as I begin to think of the reality of having a big cake,

with LOTS left over, it seemed kind of senseless to do it - 

[we were all in hotel rooms with little, if any, fridge space.]

AND we were having a delicious chocolate cake with our meal - 

AND they were going to charge an extra $2 per person to cut and serve it...

So - enter the fake cake -

Did you know this is all the rage now?

And did you know they cost 85% of a regular cake?

Seriously. 

[Ridiculous.]

But I priced the forms at Micheal's - and they ain't cheap.

So I went back to the drawing board in my mind

[it can be a scarey place...]

And I decided I could do it myself - 

on a smaller scale -

just as a center piece --

[Remember we were having that wonderful 

toffee crunch chocolate cake for dessert...]

So I started collecting boxes - figuring square would be easier to work with - and cutting and taping them to the sizes I wanted - So sorry I didn't get photos of them plain...
But basically, I have a tiny juice box on top that I got at a Senior Center I was visiting - then there's the top of a neutragana rainbath box that I recently bought, and on the bottom, a little 8x8 gift box...

So, I bought some ready-to-roll fondant [on sale!!] 

at Wal-Mart and went to work.

This stuff is cRaZy easy to work with!

[[[I'm ready for the family cake contest!!!]]]

I pulled out my trusty Mickey punch and gave it a little 
dusting of powdered sugar and cut my Mickeys - 
the hardest part of this was getting the fondant thin enough - 

but not so thin that it would tear...

 

Next I used some leftover lace 
[hello vintage tag swap - lol] 
to trim the edges

- I often use ribbon to trim my cakes -

and used water to stick the Mickeys on...

 [The water spots dried] and I added my flags on top 

- using little wooden skewers I had in the kitchen -
after Craig drilled holes through the fondant and boxes - ha.

I love it when an idea comes together.