I decided to decorate my 2yr old son’s Finding Nemo birthday cake with my sister, who has some decorating experience. Being a male engineer I wanted the cake to be perfect. We used a 12″x18″ flat pan and an 8″ football pan as the fish. I cut up the football to make Nemo and his … Read more
I made this Nemo Birthday Cake Idea for my son’s 4th birthday. I made 2 rectangular cakes using 2 packets of Betty Crocker’s Mudcake cake mix. I put one on top of the other using chocolate frosting in the middle. I found a picture of Nemo online and enlarged it to use as a template … Read more
I found a cake similar to this Finding Nemo cake on your site and thought I could probably make it. I used the sports ball pan with a 6 inch cake in the middle. I iced the cake in buttercream then covered that with orange fondant. The white stripes are fondant too, the black stripes … Read more
Although this Finding Nemo cake was submitted anonymously with no how-to tips, just the picture gives a great idea of a cool way to make a Finding Nemo cake.
I used a Finding Nemo picture from my sons colouring book, traced it onto the cake and decorated it. It took me 4 hrs from beginning (baking the cake) to end (decorating). He LOVED it!s colouring book, traced it onto the cake and decorated it. It took me 4 hrs from beginning (baking the cake) … Read more
For this Nemo cake you will need two round cakes. Slice 1/3 off sides. Stick two sides together with icing and stand on their cut side. Use the remaining 1/3 to cut into fins and a tail. Ice the cake in Nemo colors.
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