I made this for my sister’s birthday cake. She LOVES palm trees! I saw an image on Pinterest months and months ago that inspired me, and after watching Maggie Austin’s Craftsy class on hand-painted cakes I knew I wanted to try my hand at it for this cake. It’s a 4-layer chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, covered in fondant and hand painted using Crystal Colors. It’s my 2nd attempt at covering a cake in fondant, and I ran into some issues that I definitely didn’t have the first time around (beginner’s luck??) but after about the 3rd try I was happy enough and the paint covered up the major trouble areas for the most part. I used Maggie’s paper towel finger painting method for the clouds and sky, and used various paint brushes for the trees.