CAKE: I made the cake using an 11 X 14 pan. supplies for decorating: rock candy (chocolate candy with a outer coating that is decorated to look exactly like rocks and I found these at a gourmet candy shop in our local mall) wooden ship (i found this at our local craft store for $1 and I had to assemble and paint it, but this was great because this is where I wrote Happy Birthday JACOB and signed the bottom for him to keep), treasure chest (again bought at our local craft store unfinshed, I pained it and added chocolate foiled coins inside) Pretzel palm trees (I took pretzel rods and added a palm tree leaves topper that I just cut out of construction paper and taped around the prezel rod.) I iced the whole cake with a layer of white icing. Then for the water I used piping gel (found at my local craft store in the baking section) which I added blue food coloring to and iced about 3/4 of the cake with this swirling it to look like water. I then made the shore out of brown sugar, you could also use graham cracker crumbs. And along the shore I dyed some icing green and using the grass icing tip to make the rest of the cake to look like tall grass. This is where I placed the pretzel palm trees with the treasure chest underneath. I placed the rock candies in clusters to look like rock formations in the water and placed the ship the middle of the water. My description just cannot do this cake justice. I was proud of how it turned out. Ahoy Mateys! AARRGGHH.....