Thursday, March 31, 2011

Fish Bowl Cake

I had need for a fabulously decorated cake this week, and felt inspired to make this one. The idea was borrowed from a Women's Day Cake. I loved the idea in general, but wasn't interested in using goldfish crackers on a cake, so I used gumdrops, for the most part. I did learn that I dislike the precolored fondant- something I'd never worked with before. No matter what I tried, it dried out really fast. The blue was mixed with white fondant, and for some reason that helped it stay moist. Anyway, here's my fish bowl cake that I got WAY carried away with decorating. But I love scuba diving and it just became a reef without even planning for it to be.


 Sea anemone....tube coral, sea sponge....



 Coral, sea fan...
 Sea snail....Did I mention I had way too much fun with this??



 and the one fish trying to get away.
My kid's can't wait to "dive" into the cake this weekend! Who could blame them??

2 comments:

  1. Kim.....that is absolutely adorable!!! That is just waaaaay too cute =D What time did you say you would be diving into this?? hehe

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  2. I am mesmerized by this cake! And you said the colored fondant was hard to work with? How on earth did you achieve THIS then? I want to know how you made fish out of gumdrops. Maybe if I tasted it I'd figure it out...

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