How To Make A Small Dolphin For A Cake Decoration

For birthday's we like to pick out a theme. It is a fun tradition that nosotros treasure. Our kids beloved going out with me one on one, to get political party supplies, and I dearest taking them! This twelvemonth my daughter picked out a dolphin party. I thought it would be a good theme, simply had no thought that I would love it this much. The highlight was making the cake. The dolphin cake was and so fun to make and surprisingly quite easy.

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Making The Cake

To make the cakes, I used two boxes of block mix (mix as directed) and then identify them into three 9″ round block pans. Instead of using a knife to level my cakes, which I normally do, my friend bought me these astonishing Wilton Cake Strips. I love them and they saved me a lot of time!

No cake is complete without delicious frosting! For the frosting, I always whip up a homemade buttercream. You can find the recipe in this post Here.

The Waves

For the waves, information technology is a uncomplicated piping technique. I purchased this Wilton Cupcake Decorating Kit (which I love for cupcakes and cakes!) and used the large tip 4B. I used a royal blueish icing colour to create dark, medium and lite blue colors for the waves.

To brand the waves, see the movie below. The cardinal is to overlap your strokes to prevent gaps.

Afterwards two rounds of dark bluish waves, I then continued with the medium blue waves.

Before finishing the waves, frost the summit of your cake smooth with the light blue frosting.

So continue with the lite bluish frosting to complete your waves!

Now your cake is ready for a splash!

Creating A Splash

To create a place for the dolphin to bound out of, I thought it would be fun to add a 3D dimension. So I started past melting white chocolate chips.

I poured the melted chocolate into a ziploc purse, but first snipped the corner to get in like a frosting bag. I laid out some wax paper and drizzled the melted chocolate to create "splashes."

I let them cool in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes or until they were hard. In one case ready, I simply set them aside until I was set to place them in the cake.

The Dolphin

Now the star of the cake, the dolphin! I am not a sculptor….so trying to sculpt a dolphin out of fondant was not something I wanted to endeavor. I constitute the perfect dolphin toy on Amazon. It came with prime shipping and took a lot of stress off making the block. Plus now my daughter has a dolphin toy to play with…win,win!

To mount the dolphin, we took a alpine paper cake pop stick (it was solid in the eye, not hallow) and cut information technology in half.

Then serrated the ends nearly a one/4 inch deep to slide onto the dolphins tail.

Correct before I stuck the dolphin into the block, I made a few white waves on elevation of the cake. Then placed the dolphin in and the sticks held the dolphin upright!

Once the dolphin was in, I added my white chocolate splashes to complete the await. It fabricated information technology look like existent water was splashing up!

The Dolphin Block!

I loved this dolphin cake and hope you do too! Here is the last production!!

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