This fishing cake was made for a friend of mine for her husband. He is addicted to fishing and she really wanted to give him a unique cake that had him all over it. I found an idea on Wilton’s website and added/changed a few things.

I made four 12 x 6 sponges joined together with jam for this fishing cake. I then covered it in fondant. Made the fondant people and boat and everything else.

This Fishing Birthday Cake was made for a fishing/outdoorsman. I made a 12′ round and a 10″ round cake, let it cool for about an hour. I frosted both with a crumb coat of buttercream and put it in the freezer overnight to firm up. Then I frosted the grass using a star tip and … Read more

The dock is made out of tootsie rolls (rolled out), painted with brown food color. The fishing pole and the wood posts that the pelican is standing on, is made of fondant with a little bit of brown food coloring. The BASS was also made of white fondant then colored to the correct coloring. I … Read more

I baked a chocolate sponge cake (9″ round) and filled with chocolate buttercream to make this fishing cake. I made the cake level using fondant icing, layered with apricot jam and then covered with marbleized icing coloured green and white. I then cut an indentation in the top for the pond. The mud edges were … Read more

For this homemade fishing bobber cake I started out by making two 8″ or 9″ round cakes. I like to line the bottom of my cake pans with waxed paper so that the cakes come out easily. I frosted 1/2 of it white and the other 1/2 red. You could use other colors like yellow … Read more

Gone Fishing ? You bet! Forty is the magic number for this birthday boy Sam. As surprise for her husband, my client sent me a picture of this fish Sam had caught and bragged all month about. So what better way to honor the old soul than to put his trophy in edible art form. … Read more

This cake is a boxed mix baked in two 8-in. round pans. I tinted the frosting green and frosted the entire cake with the base color (next time I would use a different frosting recipe as I had a hard time getting it as smooth as I wanted it to be). I then made marshmallow … Read more

This is the first time I have ever tried something like this Little Fisherman cake. Sugar and icing was used to make the rocks. I made the boy and the fish with the color flow method. The cattails, the rock he sits on and the can of worms was made from gumpaste. The water was … Read more

This Homemade Gone Fishing Cake Idea was created as a suprise for my Brother Allen. It was a Madeira sponge cake with strawberry jam filling covered with strawberry butterceam then covered in sugarpaste. The figures were made with coloured sugar paste. The only non edible part is the fishing rod. It only took a couple … Read more

My son wanted a shark-theme party for his 7th birthday. My husband and I baked two 13X9 yellow cakes and cut out a square hole in one for the shark-infested “water.” We put the shark in a square plastic dish and poured blue Jell-O in around him and let it set. When the Jell-O was … Read more

This Fishing Birthday Cake Idea is a French vanilla cake with white buttercream icing. The topper (the man and fish) was purchased at a local cake bakery. The water was made by mixing Wilton’s food coloring with piping gel. For the green the buttercream icing colored green with Wilton’s food coloring and tip #233 was … Read more