I started with a rectangular cake. I printed the image off on the computer, and placed it on to the cake. I carved around the paper to shape the cake. Then, I iced the Finding Nemo cake using butter cream icing.
I had read that you could use a football pan to make a Finding Nemo picture cake, but I didnt have one so I baked a slab cake and then cut the corners off to make it the right shape. The tail and fins are just iced onto the foil, which makes it look more … Read more
For my sons fifth birthday we had a Finding Nemo birthday party. He wanted a Nemo cake for his party. To make this cake I used an egg shaped cake pan. I used a confetti type cake mix and baked according to package direction. After the cake cooled I placed the cake on a flat … Read more
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
My sister’s personal trainer asked me to make this Squirt cake for his girlfriend who loves turtles and Finding Nemo. I used a sheet cake to make the pieces and held them together with toothpicks. I frosted the entire cake with a powdered sugar frosting as the base coat and then added the rest of … 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 covered the Nemo cake board with blue coloured fondant which I coloured myself and then placed the cake on top. I used a football shaped cake tin which I hired from the cake shop and filled using 2 cake mixes. I used 500ml of dream whip which was more than enough once whipped, leaving … Read more
I love making cool themed birthday cakes for kids. I found a finding Nemo picture (coloring page) online of Dory and printed a copy. Using a regular 9×13 cake pan I cut out the fish shape and frosted the cake in with the correct colors. The kids loved the cake and I received numerous compliments. … Read more
This was a fun Finding Nemo cake to make. I cut out Nemo and Dory and laid them on the icing. I then traced them with white icing and took off the traced paper and filled them in with the colored frosting. I also used the blue food color spray for the background, a very … Read more
For my daughter’s first Birthday, I wanted to make her a cut-out cake of my own design somewhat, but of something she would recognize, and like. We recently set up a salt-water fish aquarium, and her fish? A clown. She calls him “MO” (her best rendition of “NEMO” we presume). So what better than a … Read more
This cake was a big hit. It was a chocolate cake with a mousse filling. I did enlarge a Finding Nemo Picture I found on the Web and cut the cake according to the Finding Nemo picture for the shape. The icing was all buttercream!
This is my original Nemo cake design. The base is a large sheet cake (13″ x 18″) made of two cake mixes (in this case devils food on one side and yellow on the other for variety.) I completely frosted the bottom cake first with homemade buttercream frosting. The sides are royal blue; the top … Read more