Mermaid

Thursday, July 1, 2010 by admin

This was Cadie’s 6th birthday cake. She decided on a mermaid theme since she was having a swim party. I decided to use fondant again, but this time after doing my research decided on using a different recipe. I have had disappointing experience with the taste of the fondant I had used. The already made fondant tasted the worst and the home made fondant I used for my previous cupcakes tasted much better, but it was still not GOOD.

I had learned that using marshmallow fondant was much more of a success as far as taste and worked as well as regular fondant. I decided to go for it. It was great! I covered the entire cake with blue marshmallow fondant, hand piped the edges of the cake, even creating a wave design on the bottom. I sculpted the mermaid on the rock and the mermaid jumping into the water by hand and hand piped her long brown hair.

The water texture on the top of the cake was created by using blue gel icing. I really enjoyed making this cake and didn’t even feel it was extremely difficult. I did learn, though, that making your own gel icing is not the best idea. I think I’ll be store buying next time. It was a MESS!

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