The Nemo cake is made from a 3D egg shaped pan. The fins are made from color flow icing, it does make them one sided, but creates the look you want. Make the fins ahead of time and do not refrigerate them. I put toothpicks into the color flow icing before it dried to help … Read more
This Nemo Birthday Cake Idea was for my son’s first birthday. He loved fish so this was perfect. It was my first attempt and freehand artwork on a cake I did. I was very pleased with the results. I had just gotten a pastry tip set and could not wait to try them out on … Read more
I made two cakes, the first was a Wilton Nemo mold, and the second was a larger rectangle shape. I used the Nestle boiling water chocolate cake, which I love. I then spread some jam in the middle of the rectangle cake before placing the cooked Nemo cake on top. I decorated the rectangle as … Read more
For this Finding Nemo cake I used a basic yellow cake recipe, prepared in a rectangular tin. I scanned a Nemo coloring book picture and scaled it to fit the cake, printed it out, and used it as a pattern to cut out the cake. It was frosted with orange frosting; I used a white … Read more
I used 2 nine-inch round cake pans. Then I cut a moon shaped piece of the same size off both cakes. One moon is the back tail. The other moon is cut in half. Half the second moon is for the top fin. The other half is cut horizontally and placed on either side of … Read more
I made four round cakes and stacked two of them on top of each other for the main body of the Nemo cake. The other two I put together and then cut into the shapes that I wanted for the top fin and two side fins. I also made cupcakes and used two of them … Read more
The Nemo Cake is a white cake with buttercream icing, all covered in blue fondant. The bottom cake is a 10 inch round and the top cake is a 6 inch round. Cakes are filled with buttercream icing. Cakes are covered in marshmallow fondant and all items are edible. The buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant … Read more
I only bake once a year: for my son’s birthday (soon to be twice a year when my daughter arrives). Last year I made a cake of the Muppet’s Swedish Chef, this year his favorite character is Nemo. Nothing big as far as preparation: made from a regular chocolate Betty Crocker cake mix (cooled in … Read more
I made this Nemo Birthday Cake Idea for my son Gage’s 2nd birthday. He was in a huge Nemo phase. I used an 11×14 cake pan (Wilton), used a home made choc. cake recipe. After the cake cooled I flipped it back on the hand and free hand carved the cake into a Nemo shape. … Read more
As I am in Australia , there is no point giving measurements for the Finding Nemo cake or icing as we use a different metric system to that used in the US. But all I did was make a 30cm x 40cm vanilla butter cake and used white, black, orange and blue butter icing. I … Read more
My husband and I found the idea on this website, from a finding Nemo picture. We bought a 12X18-inch sheet cake pan for the water’ and used the football cake pan for Nemo’s body and placed it on top. We really had fun making this for my son’s 2nd birthday, and my husband had fun … Read more
I used a football shaped cake pan to make the Nemo cake. I just looked at a picture of Nemo from the movie to decorate with orange and white icing. I used a round 12″ cake pan to make dory. I had never seen dory done before but had seen a Nemo cake. I just … Read more