Birthday Fish Cake

unfortunately for my dad, his birthday is the day after christmas. well, at least that's how he sees it. merely because most years the birthday wrapping and christmas wrapping get all mixed together. nonetheless we like to have lots of fun and celebrate and my mom insists we ALWAYS HAVE A CAKE! deeelicious with leftover pie! so, this year mom threw together a one layer chocolate on chocolate delight and as we had five minutes till dad was home i realized we must DECORATE! so, what does he miss the most during the winter? FISHING! i quickly drew up a pattern on wax paper, cut the pattern out with an x-acto and lay it over the cake. then, with a sifter i SPRINKLED ON SOME WHITE SNOW (or powered sugar for the less inventive). then, in a flash of brilliance mom crushed up some LEFTOVER CANDY CANES and we sprinkled on a bit more LOVE (because that is the secret ingredient). but of course the best part was EATING IT!