I have a baby shower cake coming up soon. It will be my first cake for others. They have requested a rectangle cake(2 layers) and an off centered round cake on the left side. They also want a monkey sitting on the round cake with its legs hanging off. Anybody have suggestions or advice?[/b]

Have you thought about using fondant or gumpaste for the monkey? It would be easier than molding one from RKrispies.

Here's a couple of how to's.

http://cakefixation.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-make-fondant-monkey.html

http://www.wilton.com/technique/Fondant-Monkeys

Thank you so much. That is absolutely perfect!

What cute tutorials; IMHO, that one at cakefixation looks a lot more "monkey-ish", doesn't the Wilton one look sort of like a teddy bear with a tail? Which would make monkeys a lot less scary come to think of it...

lol,im hoping to just make it through this. its actually pretty stressful to try to make it perfect so that everyone loves it!