I made this beach birthday cake for my cousin. Her 50th birthday was approaching and seeing as she LOVES the beach, I wanted to create something special in that theme. So, pen in hand and pictures swimming in my head, I started drawing and coming up with ways to create my cake.
Beach Birthday Cake Instructions
- I started with a two-layer 9″ cake.
- I skim coated it with white frosting and let it chill in the fridge.
- I then iced the sides with blue frosting.
- I cut out green Fruit-by-the-Foot in seaweed shapes and attached it, and added multi-colored goldfish crackers with white pearls for bubbles.
- I piped extra blue frosting along bottom, sprinkled graham cracker crumbs all around and added candy shells and rocks.
- For the top, I cut out the ocean, frosted the beach side with yellow frosting and then sprinkled it with graham cracker crumbs.
- For the beach chairs, I cut striped gum in small slats, cut out KitKat bars in small rectangles for the frames of the chairs, and attached the slats with melted white chocolate.
- For the cooler (my FAVORITE prop), I frosted a small snack cake with red frosting, cut out 2 holes for the chocolate liquor bottles and stuck them in.
- Then, using the melted white chocolate as glue, I attached clear crushed up rock candy to use as ice cubes.
- With the melted white chocolate, I also created the cooler lid and handles.
- I attached the lid using a wooden skewer which also helped to anchor the cooler to the cake.
- For the palm tree, I inserted a wooden skewer into a large tootsie roll to keep it stiff, and cut the tootsie roll to size, making sure I left a few inches of the skewer so I could anchor it into the cake.
- With small toothpicks, I formed palm tree leaves around the toothpicks and inserted them into the top of the tree.
- I then made blue Jello using the quick set method, carefully poured it into the cut out part of the cake and then added multi-colored swedish fish.
- Finally, I mixed white frosting and blue frosting to line the shore and added candy shells and rocks.
Ta Dah!!
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