This Scuba Diver Birthday Cake was made for my friend Dan’s birthday. He is really into scuba diving in his spare time so I thought this would be a good cake design for him.
The cake was chocolate sponge (nice and simple to make) x4 made in rectangular trays, which I placed 2 side by side then covered them in jam and sandwiched the other 2 cakes on top to form a nice flat surface.
I made lots of blue butter icing and covered the cake, making sure that the crease between the cakes was filled and the top of the cake looked smooth. I then put brown sugar across the base of the cake to recreate sand which looked really effective. Then using black writing icing I piped the outline of a diver onto the cake and filled it it, adding further details with other colours.
To make the skin colour I just mixed the red and yellow writing icings together with a bit of plain butter icing.
I also piped green icing onto the cake to look like seaweed and made some fish. I used silver decorative balls as air bubbles. Then placed a couple of milky way magic stars on the sand to be star fish.
This cake was very yummy, but you got a bit of a sugar rush if you had a piece of the cake with the ‘sand’ on!
A scuba-themed birthday cake presents a special delight for divers and water enthusiasts. Scuba-themed birthday cakes are easy to make, and options for decorating are as vast as the marine environment. Decorations can be created from frosting specifically for your theme; toys and miniatures also enhance the cake’s appearance. Designs involving a scuba theme are as vast as the marine world. Your scuba enthusiast may have special interests in diving such as marine life, wrecks, photography or adventure. Fanciful script that looks like coral or kelp, or water from a boat forming the words.