Tuesday, May 10, 2011

a whale of a cake.


Making this cake was a blast! It took a really long time, but it wasn't really difficult. To be honest, the hardest part was making the shape and putting the first layer of icing on him.


To start, I needed to make the shape. For the base, I used a plain circular cake pan. For his head/body, I used a glass bowl that was safe for the oven (that's super important!). For the tail, I didn't have anything shaped like that already, so I just put batter in a glass bread pan and cut it to the right shape after it was baked. It was actually fun carving out the shape, but it was really difficult, since cake is crumbly.


As you can see, if you plan on covering a cake with decorations, the base layer of icing doesn't need to be perfectly smooth.

For the decorating part, I covered the little guy with stars (which took forever), put a face on him. I had extra light blue icing, so I randomly decided to go back over the top part and make some waves crashing up alongside him. Then I added seashells and seaweed to the base.

Here's a close-up of his face:

14 comments:

  1. that cake looks so cute I wouldn't eat it! Good Job!

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  2. That cake is super cute! I relly hate to bake, but it is so amazing to see the things that can be done with cake.

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  3. I love it! I love seeing the making of the cake and how the shape is formed. One day I would really love to learn how to decorate like that. Looks great!

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  4. It looks really cute. You did an incredible job with it. Thank you for showing all the steps, I'll have to experiment with it now

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  5. This is insanely cute! I decorated a couple of cakes from scratch when the boy was little - he's 14 now - and it took FOREVER. You apparently have patience and talent. Good job.

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  10. This is really cute! I can't even make cupcakes!

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