For this Dolphin Birthday Cake I made two tiers – one with a Wilton 6 inch pan and one with a Wilton 8 inch pan. It is covered with blue marshmallow fondant and the fish and dolphins on the cake are also made out of fondant. I sprayed the fondant with blue and yellow food … Read more
When my daughter told me that she wanted a fish cake, I thought, how in the world am I going to do that? After calling a custom cake bakery and discovering that it would be $50+ to have one made, I was determined to do this myself! Fortunately, your website came to the rescue! I … Read more
I made this fish birthday cake for my daughter’s second birthday. I hadn’t decorated a birthday cake in quite a few years so this was a challenge. It is made from one round cake tin. The cake itself is a flourless orange cake which is then covered with a marshmallow fondant icing. It was the … Read more
For my daughter’s 2nd birthday, we decided to throw an Under The Sea theme party, complete with a Pirate Treasure Hunt, Sea Crafts, and plenty of fun filled fish games. I ended up renting cake pans from the Bulk Barn (very inexpensive) and baked one vanilla and one chocolate cake. While the cakes were cooling … Read more
This fish is a chocolate cake with the mouth, fins and tail molded out of candy melts and then brushed with luster dust.
For a 19th birthday for a girl who LOVES fish we made 3D fish birthday cakes using a medium sized egg mold and a small rectangular pan. The egg halves were frosted together and the fins were cut out of the rectangular piece to be held in place with two toothpicks each.
This Fish Bowl Cake was my first attempt at fondant and I enjoyed it. I mixed it with blue gel color but didn’t mix thoroughly so it would give a watery look. I used a thoroughly dishwasher cleaned CD stack cover cut to the right height (clear plastic) to hold the bowl firmly in the … Read more
This octopus cake is basically a slab cake (chocolate cake mix), topped with regular icing, then with marshmallow fondant tinted blue-green. I put a half-ball of chocolate cake (from a mold, it needed to be trimmed a bit to keep the proportion) on top of the slab cake, put a large skewer through it to … Read more
This Under The Sea Cake is a cake topper for my cupcake stand. The theme of the baby shower was “under the sea”. The cupcakes had various sea creatures including lobsters, fish, octopi, coral and sea grass. The topper is a six inch round cake covered in fondant. The head is a round of rice … Read more
I made this Penguins at the Pool Cake for my daughter’s 7th birthday. After a trip to SeaWorld, she became obsessed with penguins. We looked at several different cakes on this website and came up with our own design based on those pictures. I used a 14″ circle pan for the bottom, an 8″ circle … Read more
My daughter loves her stuffed penguin Pippy. It seemed to be the perfect cake choice for her second birthday. I drew the penguin outline, cut it out and used it to cut out the penguin from a 9 x 13 cake x 2 (stacked with frosting in btw). I then cut the inside part of … Read more
My daughter was having a cake walk for the school carnival and wanted a Shamu cake. When I saw the (awesome) Shamu cake on this website I wanted to give it a shot. I followed her wise advice and did tail and fins 3 days early. Shamu’s were rice crispie treats covered in white fondant … Read more