I made this Shamu Whale Cake for my little sister after she went to San Diego and saw the Shamu whale show five times. I used a chocolate cake mix. I used a 13×9 cake pan and cut out the torso and tail separately before I stuck them together. Black food dye was a little … Read more
I made this Homemade Ocean Wonderland Cake for my son’s second birthday. He loves fish so we had an ocean themed day. I wanted it to be big enough to show a lot of detail so I stacked two 9 X 13 cakes. Strawberry on the bottom and chocolate on the top. All of the … Read more
The Little Mermaid is a white chocolate colored mold using a Wilton cake pan, also the shells and under the sea creatures are also white chocolate molds. The sand is brown sugar. This Under The Sea Cake was for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I used regular boxed cake mix, and Wilton icing. The octopus mold … Read more
I made this Homemade Underwater Cupcake Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday, because we were doing an “octopus” theme. I made two flavors of cupcakes (chocolate and strawberry), baked in color-coordinating liners for where they would be placed on my cake sheet. Then, after frosting them, I rolled each one in colored sugar/sprinkles to … Read more
The layers were 14, 10, and 8 inches. I iced the cake in ivory and made all the sea shells out of white chocolate, I used petal dust to give them their color. I piped seaweed with a #4 writing tip, and used ivory edible pearls to accent around the shells. The cake took me … Read more
This crab cake was actually pretty simple to make. My son Kevin had a “hermit crab” party where all the kids got to decorate their hermit crabs shells, the cage and they actually took home a hermit crab! I wanted to make a little hermit crab cake to go along with the theme. I took … Read more
My daughter was having her 9th birthday party on the beach and wanted a dolphin cake to keep with the ocean theme. After looking at several cakes on various web sites including this one, and looking at a dolphin picture, we came up with the idea of making the cake out of rice crispies. I … Read more
My husband is a fishing FANATIC. When I was originally trying to decide what to do for our son’s first birthday cake, I figured it was a no brainer that it would be fish-themed. I was going to try a layered cake done with fondant and fish shapes all around it. But that seemed like … Read more
I made this Trout Fish birthday cake for a friend using a yellow box cake, vanilla pudding filling and white canned frosting to cover a base coat on the cake. The fish image came from researching fish, in particular trout, images online. I then drew my chosen image on the cake freehand, and decorated it … Read more
This fish cake was created by our creative design team Paige Parker, Josh Mortenson & Shana Mortenson from Provo, UT. It was for our brother-in-law Keoni’s 29th birthday. First it was created by using two egg shaped cake pans. Once baked and cooled, we trimmed down the edges to give it that fishy shape. Frosted … Read more
I made this Rainbow Trout cake for my flyfishing obsessed husband. Best catch he’d had all season! I apologize in advance for the photo, my cat got hold of the fish tail before the camera did! It’s done with chocolate cake. Freeze the cake before icing to prevent crumbling. Started with the white icing for … Read more
My son had a backyard beach party with his playgroup friends. We set up a couple of baby pools and threw a dozen beach balls around the yard. I bought little Tropical print bags and filled them with play-Doh goldfish crackers and rubber ducky squirters. I served fresh fruit, macaroni and cheese and whale and … Read more