My son wanted a Jaws theme party for his 11th birthday. I got the idea for my shark N ocean cake from some on-line pics, then baked two sheet cakes, 1/2 cake mix in a 1 quart bowl and the 1/2 as a dozen cupcakes. I stacked the sheet cakes on top of one another … Read more
My 3 year loves sharks and since I was not able to find a shark cake pan I decided to get creative and make a shark birthday cake of my own. I did find a shark cake that was similar on this site. I did a search online to find a simple shark picture to … Read more
Sharks are big around here, so my son wanted a Jaws cake for his 10th birthday. After some internet searching we decided to use a football cake pan for the shark, set on a 9×13 cake as the ocean. We used 2 cake mixes and baked both according to directions. Then we sliced the bottom … Read more
As you can see I copied this cake from another shark picture on this site. (Thanks Alison T.) The big slab cake on the bottom was a double recipe of my favorite banana cake. The shark piece was a basic butter cake recipe baked in a loaf tin. Once cooked I froze the cake. Then … Read more
My step-daughter loves whales and asked me to make a cake with a whale on it for her birthday. I found a design for a whale cake on this website that I loved and decided to copy it. It turned out so well that I thought I should submit my picture. The first thing I … Read more
Heres our Jonah and the Whale birthday cake idea! Our son was fascinated with the Jonah bible story. So here is what we did! CAKE With 3-D cakes it is easier to use box cakes utilizing the pound cake recipe. Call 1-800 customer service number if the recipe is not on the box- they will … Read more
I made this Under Sea Birthday Cake for a dear friend whose daughter was turning 5. This was a very small cake, 2-6 inch rounds with blue butter cream. I put it on a pedestal plate because there was a Little Mermaid doll next to the cake and I wanted height. I used marshmallow fondant … Read more
This under the sea cake is a plain chocolate cake that I made for a 3 year old (also made a tool cake for his twin brother). The icing is buttercream with fondant sea creatures. To achieve the two-toned effect with the icing, I first used blue icing around the side then used teal around … Read more
The birthday boy wanted something octopus – like for a sea themed party (a summer swimming party.) It needed to serve a large number of people, so I wanted to create an ocean cake that was made of three stacked cakes.The bottom cake is a two-layer chocolate cake, baked in a large oval pan, and … Read more
My son wanted an ocean cake so I made some creatures out of candy melts using a cookie cutter mold and covered them in fondant. The sea shells are made out of candy melts, the fish are from fondant painted with edible paint, and the sand is crushed graham crackers. The middle is glass globe … Read more
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