How to make a sitting Spongebob Cake

Since my son watches me make cake after cake for other little children, he was so very excited
when it was his turn to pick a cake and enjoy it all for himself. He decided on a Spongebob cake
and it HAD to have a crabby patty. I was more than happy to make it for him!

Here's how I did it -

I started by baking two 10 inch square cakes. I cut them in half and torted the layers.

I stacked the cakes and filled them with fudge and mint chip buttercream.

I cut my dowels to the proper height and inserted them into the cake.
 On another cardboard, I repeated my stacking and
fillings with my other 10" cake.

With a sharp knife, I cut down my cardboards to the same size as the cakes. I then stacked the cakes
on top of each other.

I then carved the cakes to look like Spongebob by tapering the bottom section. Next, I covered him
in buttercream and put him in the refrigerator to chill (about 30 mins).
Next, I used my melon baller to create Spongebob's bumpy edges.  And who's going to know if you
pop those extra little bites into your mouth.  :)

I then pushed a sharpened wooden dowel through the middle

of both cakes until it was no longer sticking out of the top.  *If you are traveling with this cake be
sure to push this center dowell all the way into a cake drum. (I use another dowell to help push it all
the way through the drum.)
 Next, was my favorite part - the decorating! I started by
trimming the excess cardboard with an exacto knife and covered Spongebob in panels of fondant.
After draping the fondant on the cake, I cut it to the perfect size with my exacto knife. Repeating on

all sides. I used my ribbon cutter to make his

pants and shirt out of fondant.

Using the end of my rolling pin, I pushed dents into Spongebob's body.
 I used round cutters for eyes and a clay gun make
the edges. His mouth, feet and legs were all cut and formed by hand out of fondant. I rolled a log
shaped piece of yellow fondant and inserted a skewer for his nose. I also used skewers to hold his
arms in place. The crabby patty and other decorations on the board were hand modelled out of
fondant.