You'll want to start out by baking two square cakes and stacking them on your serving platter - It's up to you if you want to put frosting between each layer

If you can't find black frosting, mix some chocolate frosting with black gel food coloring

Use Pull and Peel Licorice to make a little (sideways) candy cane shape in the middle of the cake

Use a #67 Wilton Leaf Tip and a bag of white frosting to make 2 Ws in the middle of the cake. the leaf tip does all of the work - instant layers of W

*The bottom section of the larger W overlaps the licorice piece in the middle of the cake

*The smaller W goes inside of the larger W

Cut the straws so that they will be about 4 inches above the cake when inserted

Place silver paper straws into the 4 corners of the cake

Attach pieces of pull and peel licorice around the straws to look like rope

*I used 8 pieces and trimmed them to fit the length of my cake

Push the licorice ends around the straws until they stuck together in a nice tight loop