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

This Fishing Cake is 2 11×15 cakes put together. I got candy rocks, and use brown sugar for sand. I had to level one cake so i used some of it to make a hill. The trees are an old Christmas tree limb. The cattails are Q-tips painted brown with kids water paint and some … Read more

Our friend’s son turned one recently, and they knew they wanted a cake but didn’t know what to have. They gave me an open palate so I chose a fishing theme, as his Dad and brother are mad about fishing. So for this Fishing Birthday Cake I baked two round chocolate mud cakes, one smaller … Read more

The Fishing Birthday Cake was for my husband’s 65th birthday and I decided to depict two of his most favorite activities, fishing and napping. The bottom layer is his favorite spice/pumpkin cake with cream cheese filling, the cake was crumb coated with cream cheese icing then covered with marshmallow fondant tinted blue. I then tinted … Read more

My son wanted fishing equipment for his 12th birthday so I made him this Fishing Cake too. The cake is a chocolate sponge made in an 8 inch round tin. I sliced it in half and sandwiched it with jam and buttercream. I then coloured the remaining butterscream green and covered the top of the … Read more

I made this Fishing Birthday Cake for my father in law. It was a 10 inch round chocolate cake with a filling of chocolate butter cream and vanilla butter cream to crumb coat the cake. I covered the whole cake in green fondant then added a layer of blue to create the water. I made … Read more

This man fishing in a boat birthday cake was really fun to make. I used a 10″ cake tin and this too was doubled up to be able to fill with homemade butter cream and strawberry jam. It was left in the fridge and straightened all the sides to look perfect (hopefully). The cake itself … Read more

I made this fishing cake for Henry and added his friend’s name because his birthday was the next week. They enjoy fishing together and I thought they would like to have a cake to reflect that. The trees are made from royal icing. The fish are the candles.

My ten year old son is an avid fisherman. I had to make just the right cake for his birthday. I knew I wanted to do some kind of “fish out of the cake” idea… but it took a couple of (secret) attempts. I had make a few cakes before, but I had not sculpted … Read more

I enjoy creating fun birthday cakes for my children, but sometimes coming up with an idea that I can actually produce is tricky (since I don’t use fondant). I happened to find a fish-shaped aluminum pan at a garage sale, and it sparked an idea for a fishing themed cake for my son who enjoys … Read more