This last minute Nemo Birthday cake was my first ever attempt at a big cake. I never stray from what I know which are cupcakes, but my friend couldn’t afford to pay at the time so I offered free of charge to attempt one. So glad I did. It was a plain vanilla sponge cake filled … Read more
I made 4 sheet cakes and layered it with frosting in between. Then carved the body shape and frosted it. I then made a lot of rice crispy cereal treats and shaped them into the fins of the fish. I had to shape them around bowls and cups and let them harden for a while … Read more
This Nemo cake was made for my granddaughter. My grandchildren think I can make any cake and decorate it! It is a lot of pressure for this very inexperienced cake decorator. This was about my third attempt working with color flow icing. I used the Wilton color flow mix. By using color you can create a dimensional … Read more
I made this Finding Nemo birthday cake for my hairdresser for her granddaughter, she said she loved Nemo the film and decided this was what she wanted. Before baking the cake I needed to make the decorations so they dried out. I started by making the body of the fish. I colored one piece of icing in orange … Read more
My sister in law called me as my nephew’s birthday was approaching and asked me if I could combine his two favorite characters, Scoop the Dozer from Bob the Builder and Nemo, into a cake for his second birthday. I asked her to text to my phone a picture of Scoop, which she promptly did, and off … Read more
The Nemo cake is made from a 3D egg shaped pan. The fins are made from color flow icing, it does make them one sided, but creates the look you want. Make the fins ahead of time and do not refrigerate them. I put toothpicks into the color flow icing before it dried to help … Read more
My sister’s personal trainer asked me to make this Squirt cake for his girlfriend who loves turtles and Finding Nemo. I used a sheet cake to make the pieces and held them together with toothpicks. I frosted the entire cake with a powdered sugar frosting as the base coat and then added the rest of … Read more
This Nemo Birthday Cake Idea was for my son’s first birthday. He loved fish so this was perfect. It was my first attempt and freehand artwork on a cake I did. I was very pleased with the results. I had just gotten a pastry tip set and could not wait to try them out on … Read more
I covered the Nemo cake board with blue coloured fondant which I coloured myself and then placed the cake on top. I used a football shaped cake tin which I hired from the cake shop and filled using 2 cake mixes. I used 500ml of dream whip which was more than enough once whipped, leaving … Read more
I love making cool themed birthday cakes for kids. I found a finding Nemo picture (coloring page) online of Dory and printed a copy. Using a regular 9×13 cake pan I cut out the fish shape and frosted the cake in with the correct colors. The kids loved the cake and I received numerous compliments. … 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
For my daughter’s first Birthday, I wanted to make her a cut-out cake of my own design somewhat, but of something she would recognize, and like. We recently set up a salt-water fish aquarium, and her fish? A clown. She calls him “MO” (her best rendition of “NEMO” we presume). So what better than a … Read more