Cool Homemade Finding Nemo Cake Idea

This Finding Nemo cake is my first cake. I made a rectangular butter cake, cut it horizontally and filled it with lemon curd. I then covered the cake with butter cream. I made 5 different colours of blue fondant and mixed them together to get the swirled effect. The characters are all made from gum paste.

I rolled the gum paste very thin. I used pictures printed off of the internet. I put shortening on the back so they wouldn’t stick while I used a sharp blade to cut through the paper and gum paste. Then I peeled off the paper, and set the gumpaste aside over night to dry. I then did my best eyeballing to draw on and colour in the characters with edible markers.

The coral, rocks and grass were made from gumpaste and royal icing. I covered blobs of royal icing in sprinkles to get the rock looking effect and the same with the long standing ones. This made it very brittle which is why they are mostly placed on the sides of the cake. I used gum paste that I watered down to glue everything on. I used wooden skewers to hold). Then I brushed on a bit of blue pearl dust.