Monkeying around with Texas Hold'em!

This week's order was a rather interesting one. The initial order for the cake was for a "monkey" cake as the wife who ordered the cake endearingly calls her hubby - Monkey! So as I was conceptualising the cake..I thought of having 3 monkeys, coconut trees, similar to the safari theme which I did earlier. However, it felt kinda dull to just have a plain monkey cake.. so I asked her more about what her hubby likes to do.. and walah! Since he liked to play Texas Hold'em -  I thought, why not do a cake with Monkeys playing Texas Hold'em? :) 

So I got all excited and started doing some mini poker cards (complete with a royal flush sequence!), some mini casino chips and how can we forget.. bananas for the monkeys! 

Dotted the cake with some party balloons behind the monkeys and the cake became one happy safari casino! 

Also, notice the monkeys' expressions? :) See no evil, Speak no evil, Hear no evil! Hee, the mantra of all monkeys playing Texas Hold'em! 

Happy Monkey Day Ben!