A customer showed us a picture and requested this cake. I really don't like to recreate other people's custom cakes because it takes away our own artistic freedom and then there's always the comparison to see if it's the same or better or worse. Well in this cake, I think our's is nowhere near as good as the one they showed us. But the customer was completely happy and her guests were all amazed and taking pictures of it and grabbing our business cards, so I'm happy. The original monkey head I made from Rice Krispies, but when we were ready to put it on top of the cake we realized that we should have made a better support system, because the head was just too heavy, so I shaped this one quickly out of styrofoam, buttercreamed it and remade and applied the fondant in about an hour. No too shabby huh? The bananas are made from fondant and everybody loved them. But I didn't know they were going to be eating them. People were actually picking them off at the cake cutting and eating them and they like them. But, next time I will use Tootsie Rolls (someone told me they have banana Tootsie Rolls, which would be perfect) and then cover them in fondant. The circles, trees and lettering are all fondant.