Our friend’s son turned one recently, and they knew they wanted a cake but didn’t know what to have. They gave me an open palate so I chose a fishing theme, as his Dad and brother are mad about fishing.
So for this Fishing Birthday Cake I baked two round chocolate mud cakes, one smaller than the other, cut them in half length ways and iced and filled them with Betty Crocker vanilla frosting (I love that stuff!).
I set to work making marshmallow fondant, and split it into some smaller batches to colour appropriately. The majority batch was an aqua/blue, which I left with a hint of marble in it to give a watery effect. I hand cut the waves and only loosely adhered them to the first coat of fondant to look like waves, and I placed sea creatures I had shaped randomly in the waves.
The little boy on top is all hand sculpted piece by piece in his tinny (just a fraction of the size of his Daddy’s boat of course, which was wayy to detailed to try and make, so I settled for a rickety little tinny.
His fishing rod is a skewer cut to size and covered in fondant, and I used cotton thread to dangle to his one candle as if he is ‘catching’ it.
To finish it off I used name blocks to keep it a bit more baby-ish.
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