My son''s birthday cake

[lumpkin]

I had so much fun with this. My (now) 6 year old loves fish. He asked for a fish cake for his birthday. I toyed with making a cake in the shape of a fish, but I'm not that good a baker. I got this idea from an old magazine a few years ago and I made it for his birthday a few weeks ago.

It's just a plain round cake from a mix (strawberry with chocolate icing in between the layers) with butter cream icing (lots of blue and green food color). Then the aquarium rocks are nerds and jelly beans. The plants are fruit roll ups cut into squigles and some other kind of sour candy bits cut into fringes. There are sour gummy worms for sea serpents and of course, colored Gold Fish crackers.

Do you think those kids ate this cake????? NO!!! They picked the candy off, LOL!

 

[lumpkin]

Here''s another angle.

 

[lumpkin]

Another.

 

[lumpkin]

Last one.

 

[Skippy123]

Wow, that is an awesome cake; you did an incredible job!!!! Happy B day to your son! How fun!

 

[lumpkin]

Awww, thank you, Skippy.

It was loads of fun and I have to admit I am just a little proud of it.

 

[Miranda]

That is so cute! I love making fun cakes. For my son''s third b-day we had a train cake. DD is really into cupcakes now.

 

[Kaleigh]

WOW!! lumpkin, I am in awe of this cake. It looks amazing!!! You did such a great job!!

 

[monarch64]

That''s adorable Lumpkin! Great job, I bet your little boy just loved it!

 

[crown1]

well, aren''t you the cleaver one! the cake is really cute. you did a great job!

 

[Dandi]

OOOHH you clever thing you, it''s awesome!!!!

 

[Dandi]

I'm gonna make DF a fish cake for his birthday now

 

[door knob solitaire]

Adorable.

Great job!

DKS

 

[snlee]

What a cool creative cake! You should be proud of it! You did a great job! Happy birthday to your son!

 

[Independent Gal]

Fantastic!

 

[Ellen]

Darling cake lump!

And yes, I can believe they ate the candy. lol

 

[Sundial]

That cake looks fantastic!!! What a terrific mother you are to make such a wonderful and creative cake for your son (even if he and his friends did like the candy more than the cake).

 

[Tacori E-ring]

That is SUCH a cute cake! What a great idea.

 

[Mara]

what a cute cake, i love it!!

i would have gladly eaten the cake for them. hehee. i don''t think kids realize when they are young just how yummy cake becomes to you as an adult when you can''t eat it all the time! hehe.

 

[lumpkin]

Thanks you guys! It was a really, really fun, easy cake to make -- it looks much more impressive than it was difficult, which is always a good thing in my book.

If anyone has any way to make a swimming pool cake or something lake (fishing, boating) oriented, I''d love to see some ideas. I''m getting ideas for my husband''s birthday cake this August.

 

[zoebartlett]

What a great cake! I can''t believe the kids didn''t eat it!

 

[iheartscience]

Wow, that seriously looks like a professional made it! You are a talented cake artist! I love watching the shows on TLC and Food Network when people are making gorgeous cakes but I know mine would never look that good!

 

[neatfreak]

That is the most adorable cake ever even if the kids didn''t eat it! Their loss!

 

[IrishAngel7982]

WOW grat job Lumpkin!!!!!

 

[NYCsparkle]

that is a really cute cake lumpkin. it looks too yummy to eat....although i''d be picking candy off of it too

 

[lumpkin]

I ate enough cake for all of us.

I LOVE cake. But I picked off the candy and removed the icing. I like just the cake part.

Thank you for your kind words. It really did turn out well.

 

[Erin]

Your cake is fantastic - I especially liked that it was presented with a glass lid - somehow reminds me of a fish bowl.

You asked about swimming pools...
Pool furniture, diving boards and accessories (see Tip):
Lounge chairs (Candy Blox)
inner-tube floats (gummi rings)
striped raft (cream-filled red licorice bite)
low diving-board base and beach ball (fruit chews)
high diving-board base (candy stick)
diving boards and beach towels (striped stick chewing gum)
diving-board railings (gummi rings, cut in half)
Teddy Grahams cookies
Palm trees (green belt candy and Life Savers)

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Starset, that is such a cute and clever cake! Looks very time consuming though!

 

[lumpkin]

OMG, Starset!!! That''s waaaayyyy coooool! I hope you don''t mind, I''m going to COPY COPY COPY!!! That''s awesome! My husband is going to be amazed and so excited!

Thanks for sharing it!

 

[ellaila]

OK, you guys are just way too creative -- you make the rest of us look bad!!

Seriously, those are fantastic!!