Anya's Kaya Cake

I made this cake for my daughter turning 8. She loves the American Girl Kaya and received the doll for her birthday. I wanted to do a cake for her with Kaya on it. Kaya is the Native American doll in the American Girl collection. I found a 2 1/2" puffy sticker of Kaya at Michael's craft and hobby store and attached it to a piece of thin dowel. I used the rest of the thin dowel to create her tepee poles. I colored the fondant brown and stretched it over the dowels for the tepee covering. I used a toothpick to hold the flap of Kaya's tepee open. The cake is chocolate so I could put the tepee directly on the cake so it would look like a dirt floor. I built a fire ring and put broken toothpicks in it for wood. Then I used a grass tip and covered the cake with grass leaving room for a small stream. It is a simple design, but I think it came out very nice. The cake is only a small 8" square. My family doesn't eat a lot of cake and we only had a couple friends over.