I’ve been dabbling in cakes since I got married 30 years ago. My Aunt who made my wedding cake while in the hospital undergoing surgery in Denver Colorado inspired me. My four-tier wedding cake was then flown to Texas on dry ice to my parent?s house then driven to Arkansas where the wedding took place. … Read more
This Finding Nemo cake was designed for a little girl who loved Nemo but wanted it more on the girly side. I started with a 12″ round and a 6″ round. I iced it with teal blue and then sprayed the bottom of each part of the finding Nemo cakes with the Wilton blue spray … Read more
This Finding Nemo cake is my first cake. I made a rectangular butter cake, cut it horizontally and filled it with lemon curd. I then covered the cake with butter cream. I made 5 different colours of blue fondant and mixed them together to get the swirled effect. The characters are all made from gum … Read more
Connor loves the movie Finding Nemo, so I thought Id make him a cake. I saw a few Finding Nemo cakes on this website and wanted to do one similar but still a bit different. It was a hit with all his young friends and he loved having a 3 round cake (which meant I … Read more
I made this Nemo Scene Birthday Cake mostly of Fondant. Since the fondant is a little bland, I put a little bit of vanilla flavoring in. All the coral, Nemo and Dora are handmade. It took about 2 days to craft all the coral,Nemo and Dora. I let them air dry for about 2 days … Read more
I made this Finding Nemo cake for a joint father-son birthday. Nicholas turned 2 and just loved watching Nemo and feeding the fish in his fish tank. This is a basic 10″ round cake. I added Nemo and Dory (I know that they dont actually appear together much in the movie, but they were Nicky’s … Read more
I was naive enough to let my kid browse through this site when he was about to turn three. We looked at all the beautiful Nemo-cakes, and he pointed at the largest one and cried: “That one! please, mommy!” How could I resist? I read a lot of descriptions on this site, and they really … Read more
I made this Nemo Under the Sea Birthday Cake with a 12 inch double layer white cake with buttercream icing in the center. It is made out of all buttercream icing. I drew Nemo on and then I had purchased the little sea creatures at a local store. The sand is crushed graham crackers. For … Read more
I used a combination of a couple of finding nemo cakes I already saw on this site. Thanks for the great ideas. I didnt think I did a very good job but the people at my niece’s birthday party really seemed to like it. Thanks again.t think I did a very good job but the … Read more
I made this cake for my son’s 1st birthday. Ahead of time, I made frozen buttercream transfers of Nemo, Pearl and Squirt. (If you Google “frozen buttercream transfer” you will find a detailed explanation of this method. It is time consuming but gives a clean look and almost a 3D look to your characters.) I … Read more
My idea for this Nemo and Friends Birthday Cake came from a little boy that was turning 3 and really wanted a Nemo cake for this birthday. I just used a box cake and I just bought white frosting at the store. I had problems finding Nemo characters. So I found a box of Nemo … Read more
This was a fun Finding Nemo cake to make. I cut out Nemo and Dory and laid them on the icing. I then traced them with white icing and took off the traced paper and filled them in with the colored frosting. I also used the blue food color spray for the background, a very … Read more