Tysons Cake

Tyson had his birthday party on Saturday. He is too big to have "theme" parties, but he still wanted a cool cake. He asked for an army battle cake - you heard right, a battle cake. Now, I could have just put some army men on top of a cake and called it good, but where is the fun in that? I called lots of friends and family and asked them for ideas - thanks everybody- and here is the result.

**disclaimer - It could have been a lot better, I know. My friend Kim gave me awesome ideas and let me borrow her decorating tips and even gave me some fondant - I did not have the energy for all of that, maybe next time. If my awesome cousin Christine would come and teach me all her magic cake decorating skills the next one will be even better; and I'm sure there will be a next one.

The defenders of the hill - chocolate teddy grahams. The marshmallows are boulders, the pretzels with fruit roll ups are trees and the pretzels at the bottom is a fence. Oh and that's a cannon on the top with raisinettes for cannon balls.

The attackers - honey teddy grahams. They are camped out in their thicket of trees, and some of the men are dug into their fox holes. Some of the men were unfortunately killed when the enemy rolled the boulders down the hill. And at the very back an enemy spy has infiltrated their ranks.

Thought to ponder: what kind of cake would Tyson have asked for, if his dad wasn't in the Army and he wasn't obsessed with all things military?