I took two boxes of the Betty Crocker golden vanilla. I wanted a white cake so I could make it orange with food coloring because my son’s favourite color is orange. I baked it in a huge metal pan for about 25 minutes. I took two containers of whipped cream cheese frosting and added blue … Read more
This cake is my first attempt at using fondant and a 3-D design. It was made for my grandson’s first birthday. I purchased pre-made fondant and simply rolled it out and cut and shaped it to my liking. This aquarium was a combination of pictures found online… and each fish is made of fondant, therefore … Read more
I created this Finding Nemo cake using a bit of my own creativity and one that I had seen on the internet. I actually made two of these cakes for my twin girls 3rd birthday. The cakes are very similar except for the Finding Nemo figurines on top of the cake. The cake was made … Read more
This Finding Nemo cake came out so great thanks to ideas from this site! I made it with an 11×15 inch rectangle for the base then a 10,8,6 inch rounds on top. Instead of tinting an entire batch of frosting blue, I used Wilton’s spray food coloring to do the “all over” blue color. I … Read more
This Finding Nemo Birthday Cake was for a little girl turning 3. She was a big fan of Finding Nemo the movie. A few days before the party, I mixed up some royal icing in bright colors and I piped out the corals and seaweed shapes onto wax paper and let them fully dry. I … Read more
Finding Nemo was the perfect theme for my little boys second birthday. Finding Nemo was the only movie he would really sit and watch so I knew he would love a Finding Nemo cake. I baked two classic yellow cakes in a 2 inch 10×15 pan. It holds two boxes just perfectly. I used a … Read more
I browsed and found many ideas from the other Finding Nemo birthday cakes on this site. I managed to come up with an original looking three-layer cake, with lots of tropical-colored candies and icing to border and be visually appealing. I ordered a set of mini figurines off of EBay and used the characters on … Read more
I made this Finding Nemo birthday cake for my friend’s daughters 1st birthday. She printed out a picture of one that had been professionally done with fondant and was going to have it made professionally. So I told her I would give it a try before she spent the money. I think it turned out … Read more
My daughter really loves Finding Nemo. As much as I wanted to have some sort of really girlie party for her, I went ahead and made it a Nemo Party. For this Finding Nemo cake I used two round cake pans, one smaller than the other. It looks like three layers, but the top is … Read more
I decided to do a Nemo Underwater theme for my son’s 2nd birthday. One thing I knew for sure is I wanted to make every on the Nemo birthday cake edible. Therefore, I did my son’s favorite characters; Nemo, Dori, Bruce, Turtle, and the Sting Ray (teacher). I started with a rectangle cake, and 2 … Read more
Here is a Finding Nemo Birthday Cake I did for my cousin’s daughter’s 2nd Birthday. I put her favorite characters on top. The cake was yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. 8in and 6in tiers. I colored white buttercream with a mixture of sky blue and teal until i achieved the Nemo blue color. I … Read more
Thanks to hints learned from my mom (who decorated cakes professionally) and encouragement from my grown children it has become tradition for me to make birthday cakes for my grandchildren (like my mom did for my own children). One of my grandsons, Tater (aka Trevor), just turned two and his favorite movie is Nemo. He … Read more