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Nautical Cake

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This nautical cake is one I've had in the back of my mind for a long time. But I didn't want to eat a cake myself, so I made it out of a cake dummy. I used a 6-inch cake dummy and stuck it to the cake board with a bit of vegan American buttercream.  I frosted it with the buttercream of well.  And I used a piece of spare cardboard to stick down a 4-inch cake dummy.  And I frosted this one as well.  Then I took some bright blue fondant and added some black fondant.  As well as some black and blue food coloring.  To eventually make some navy blue.  Then I covered both tiers in white fondant.  And I stacked the cake.  I also covered the cake board. In case you can't tell, the board isn't in great shape. So, I covered it in light blue fondant. But I didn't roll it out large enough the first time, so I had to use off cuts to fill in the gaps. That caused a lot of cracks and seams in the fondant.  Then I rolle...