Otaku Crafts: How to Make Your Own Defiance Cake

This tutorial is more of a how-to on how to turn any cake into a Defiance theme.

Start off by making and icing your favourite cake. (Ours was a two layered banana cake with cream cheese icing)

To make the arch you will need:

rice krispies cereal
marshmallows
butter
black and white candy melts or white chocolate (if you use white chocolate you will need black food colouring to colour the chocolate grey)
skewers

Other cake decorations:

shredded coconut
green food colouring
chocolate candy rocks (check your local bulk food store)
chocolate cookies
small plastic trees
pictures (optional)
extra icing (for piping/decoration) (optional)

Using rice cereal, marshmallows, and butter, make rice krispies mixture as recipe directs. Let the mixture cool slightly before moulding. Work on a piece of wax paper or parchment paper to avoid sticking. You might also want to spray your service/ hands with something like Pam.

Mould into arch shape no wider than your cake. Make sure to tightly compact the rice cereal together. As the mixture cools further, stand the arch up and refine your arch shape. Don't worry about sharp edges/ detail, you'll be carving it more later.

Place sculpted arch into refrigerator to harden.

Once the arch has hardened, carefully use a sharp knife to refine arch edges and add the cut out piece on the one side. If necessary, place back in refrigerator to re-harden.

Melt your chocolate/ candy melt mixture to achieve desired grey colour and apply to arch. Once covered, place back into refrigerator to cool coating.

Once the arch has completely cooled, cut skewers to desired length (at least 1" into the arch and 1" into the cake for stability) and stick them into the bottom of the arch ends. Place the arch onto your already iced cake.