Little Mermaid Cake

For my cousin whose also my best friend's 21st birthday I made her a little mermaid cake. We grew up together watching this movie and we both love it so I was really looking forward to making it for her. 

 

The cake itself is a french vanilla cake and the filling is rainbow chip frosting by Betty Crocker 

http://www.bettycrocker.com/products/frosting/products/rich-creamy/rainbow-chip

it's both mine & my cousins favorite frosting. We've literally bought it just to eat it out of the tub it's that good. The frosting is my basic buttercream. The shells are made with white chocolate & a shelly candy mold I got at Michaels. I also put some gold edible glitter on the tops of the shells so they shined a little. I covered the cake board with a pink little mermaid wrapping paper. I also made about 24 cupcakes to go with the cake that were in little mermaid liners & topped with flounder & seashell edible icing decorations.

Cupcake liners:

http://customcakesupply.com/cart/disney-ariel-the-little-mermaid-50-baking-cupcake-liners-by-wilton-p-391.html?zenid=d15066aa6183542aa5263aeb1f9b7037

Flounder & Seashell decorations.

http://customcakesupply.com/cart/disney-ariel-the-little-mermaid-9-edible-icing-decorations-by-wilton-p-423.html

I loved making this cake and luckily my cousin loved it too. She told me for her wedding she wants me to make a little mermaid wedding cake topped with Ariel & Eric so hopefully I'll get to do that one day too ;)

With Love,

Cheri

First Stacked Cake

About a year ago I made my sisters 16th Birthday Cake and she really wanted a zebra cake and I wasn't sure how to do it. It was my first time doing a stacked cake & a first time using fondant..

Here's how it turned out:

My sisters favorite colors are purple & red so I wanted to use those. The red layers are fondant. The black "zebra" stripes are fondant as well.. The purple is buttercream.

I used marshmallow fondant from here:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Marshmallow-Fondant/Detail.aspx

This stuff gets very difficult to stir once you get all the marshmallow in. At least you'll get a great arm exercise.

Jarret helped me so much with this cake and without him I'm sure it would've been a nightmare. 

With Love,

Cheri