Mahi Mahi Cake #2

Cheeseburger Cake

The top and bottom buns are yellow cake while the burger is chocolate so when you cut into it it will look like a burger :)

Frog Queen Cake

Elephant Cake

3D Elephant (see back here)

Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

These dark chocolate cupcakes have peanut butter cups hidden on the inside (don't they look donuts before they are frosted? cute!) and are topped with a fluffy peanut butter frosting finished with a milk chocolate magic shell type topping.

Hippo and Turtle Cake

These are a few of my favorite things......(my two year old's favorite things).

Troubleshooting??

I need your ideas....I made these figures out of royal icing and was going to use them on the cake but they broke apart - way too fragile. Do you think it was the amount of black I had to put in the black icing that broke down the structure? I've never done royal icing toppers before so I really don't know. I went with 3D fondant figures instead....turned out great. Any ideas why this didn't work?