For my youngest son's 3rd birthday. He wanted Diego and I came up with doing the Rescue Center. So the house is vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream. The bottom is a 8" square chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. The tree is dowel that I covered with brown fondant and added the vines. Characters were some we already had around the house. I made the rope ladder from a piece of string and fondant for the wood pieces. He loved it and I had so much fun making it for him.