This ocean cake was for my sons fifth birthday. My first attempt at a creative cake. I found that fruit leather and a pair of scissors were very useful in creating different sea-weeds. Group similar fish placing some behind the seaweed to give 3 dimensional effect. The candy pebbles were a great hit. Playing around … Read more
I decorated this cake with mock cream I made from icing sugar, and coloured it with food colouring, it took me a total of 5 hours to make. I got a friend to draw an outline of a dolphin by looking at a picture. I used grease paper and cut out the shape, placed it … Read more
This Bass Cake was my first time working with fondant. I was very impressed with my work, as was everyone else! I now have a web page, and I am starting my own business. I made the cake out of a regular half sheet size. I carved a basic fish shape out of half of … Read more
I made this Koi Cake Design for my Grandma’s birthday. She has always had a fish pond since I can remember, and her Koi in it have to weigh close to 20 pounds each! So, I knew she would love this cake. It is a marbled chocolate-vanilla cake with a Kaluah-Coffe filling, vanilla buttercream and … Read more
This cake I actually found on this website for fish birthday cakes. There was a link to the recipe found on www.birthdayexpress.com. It turned out to be a really cool cake but working with the tail proved to be a challenge. I had to use a LOT of wooden skewers to hold the tail in … Read more
I baked 3- 9×12 cakes and stacked them on a wrapped board with buttercream icing between each layer. The cake stand was a wine rack that I turned upside down. I iced the Aquarium Birthday Cake in buttercream icing and cut out black fondant strips to make the frame for the aquarium. I air brushed … Read more
Got the pan from Williams and Sonoma, which was perfect for this octopus cake. Covered it with purple fondant and the sand was vanilla wafers. The fish were fondant too. Used the icing gels to color the water and everything else, love that the gels make everyone’s mouth turn blue! This is one of my … Read more
I made Octupus Birthday Cake for my son’s 6th birthday. He helped with the decorating, so it’s really over the top! The base is 2 x 12 in rounds; the middle is 2 x 10 in rounds made with the butter cake recipe found on the Wilton’s site. I filled it with pastry cream and … Read more
We just got back from a cross-country road trip (from Southern California where we live all the way to the tip of Maine), when my youngest daughter had her 3rd birthday. Because we had spent a significant amount of time in Maine (and I lived there as a child myself), I decided to do a … Read more
I made this penguin birthday cake for my daughter’s second birthday, the night she was born was one of the coldest nights of that year and January around here typically is, so I wanted something wintery that did not have any ties to Christmas. I baked a regular yellow sheet cake from the box in … Read more
My friend said that her son would like a Penguin Birthday Cake Design for his 3 year old birthday party. OK, no problem! Well, after searching the internet for some ideas, here is what I ended up creating. I started with the base. I made two 10″ round vanilla cakes. I filled them with vanilla … Read more
