Saturday, 25 October 2008

Shark Birthday Cake

Because Jacob loves sharks, I decided to make him a shark cake for his birthday this year. But when I googled 'shark cake' all I found were 3D constructions that just looked too hard and I knew it would end in tears (mine that is!) if I tried one of them. So, in an effort to simplify, I designed my own shark-themed cake (with a bit of help from my mum - who has more kids' birthday cake experience than me!). It's super easy:

1. Make some blue jelly (you'll need that later)!

2. Bake a square cake. I made a marble cake with red marbling (blood from the feeding frenzy!). Either make a big square, or if you don't have a big square, you could do what I did and make 2 cakes, 1 square, 1 loaf, then cut the loaf cake into 4.


3. Put it on a cake board (with blue cellophane on it). Either arrange the 4 loaf bits around the outside creating a ridge around the outside OR cut into the cake about 1.5cm in from edges and 2.5cm deep. Either way, you'll need a well for the jelly. Then ice around it with blue icing.

4. Chop up the blue jelly, then add it to the well.

5. Add some cheap toy sharks to the jelly "water".

Voila! He loved it.

4 comments:

Jean said...

Very creative, Nic, I love it!

Cathy McKay said...

I love the blood!
When Winton stops being sick he will have a look at your pics. We had already talked about Jacob's cake and Winton guessed that it was probably blue...he will be pleased to see that he was right.

Nicole said...

Hi Cathy!

Is Winton sick? Hope he gets better soon. Poor thing!

Cathy McKay said...

Yes, we thought we were through it, but it all went down hill again yesterday. He is highly medicated (and asleep) now.

He was very impressed when he saw the cake pics yesterday, "I want to see the blood again. Aaww, it's very good" (in his very squeaky, hoarse half-voice).