THis is for a large company party. It is a summer potluck, and my customer signed up for a desert and then called me. I am having a hard time thinking of anything other than a picnic blanket with fondant "food". Can you think of anything? I have all creative control here, because she just said that it needs to be "summer, picnicky". HELP??

What about making a picnic basket with fondant food coming out of the top? Make a tall oval cake and decorate with basketweave on the outside?

Check out this cake by vickitilghman:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_431623.html

I think a red and white checked picnic blanket with gumpast plates, fondant food and ants would be really cute! You could make silverware from gumpaste dusted wit hsilver luster dust too.

table w/ watermelon and maybe even ants?

where is the picnic? you could make it a park setting, with trees and the people, and dogs. i like the idea for the ants

Oh my Doug, that looks so cool.

Check my pics. I made a watermelon cake for my twins a few years ago....easy and really cool. Almost fooled everyone into thinking it was the real thing when I carried it out!

Good luck!

Oh Doug beet me to it! I was going to say, you can't have a picnic without ants!

Here is one I made a few years ago:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=19926

The table is a full sheet. The melon and pizza are 10" or 12" layers. All airbrushed buttercream.

how about a cooler with sugar ice

hamburgers and hotdogs on a red checkered blanket

watermelon on a wooden board

cherry pie "cake"

swimming pool

I made a slice of watermelon cake that turned out pretty cool. It's in my photos (if the link below doesn't work). I made it from a red velvet cake so it was even red on the inside!

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=10523

HTH