1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a fish alive.......
Here we have a fun fishing themed birthday cake that was ordered for a adult males birthday. It was a smaller sized cake as the order also included 24
co-ordinating cupcakes.
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The cake was 3 layers of
'Blondie' (vanilla bean butter cake) with caramel Swiss meringue buttercream sandwiched in between. This was covered in homemade marshmallow fondant which I marbled in order to make it appear more sea like. The size was a 6" round (approx 10 regular serves).
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The boat, all of the items in the boat, sea creatures, seaweed & rocks were also modeled using marshmallow fondant.
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The customer had told me that the birthday boy loves his tinnie so I designed the cake with that in mind & made the tinnie the main focus. I was sure to use the actual letters & numbers off his real life boat on the tinnie to make it really personalised. I added a lifesaver & an Esky inside the boat for a whimsical touch, (I love the little Esky).
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The fish popping out of the water is one of my favorite parts, I used royal icing to pipe the little ripples on the water around the fish which I think looked really effective. I also used royal icing to pipe the little air bubbles coming from the mouth of the fish on the side of the cake.
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Although you can't tell too well from the photos all the fish & the stingray had a shiny & sparkly finish which I achieved by using edible lustre dust.
Again I marbled the fondant for the rocks to give them a more realistic look.
Absolutely wonderful Cesca the attention to detail is amazing and I bet your client loved it.
ReplyDeleteOnce again these are so good.
ReplyDeleteDo you do delivery to Sydney?
Thanks guys. I could probably ship some cookies down to Sydney suzi but not the cake I'm afraid Suzi, lol.
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