My husband and I made this Groom's Cake for a Groom who was just batty about Converse sneakers!!! :) The cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream. The shoe was mistaken at the wedding for being a real shoe. Trust me...we did spend a great deal of time on it. The shoe is completely edible. It is carved from cake and then covered with fondant. The laces are fondant, as are most accents. The rivits are painted silver with a solution of vodka and metalic silver luster dust. The logo is edible rice paper. We also used royal icing for painting details. The skulls on the square tiers are made using a mold and are filled with white cholcolate. We had a blast making the cake, but I did not want to see black fondant for a while afterwards!!!