I made this cake for my daughter's first birthday. Thank you to the other ducky barrel cakes that I used for inspiration! Here's how I made it: The base cake is 2 8-inch round chocolate cakes with white icing. On top of that is coconut that I died green. The top cake is a tiny chocolate cake (using the same pan I made the smash cake with) with chocolate icing. I used the chocolate icing to glue on the kit kats (which I cut a little off of the bottoms, since they're slightly too long). The water is blue jello that partially set in the fridge and then poured on top of the little cake (first you have to use icing to close up all the seams, or else the jello would ooze out of the "barrel"). The soap bubbles are the white icing that I partially froze and rolled into little balls. The ducky is a rubber ducky. The ribbon and the cattails came from the store (I'll be honest, I was thrilled with my bow, since I'm not usually a good bow maker - but it came out pretty). The lady bugs and the flowers are sculpted from air heads and tootsie rolls. The smash cake is a blue iced chocolate cake with blue crystal sugar sprinkled on top.