I had a lot of fun making this fishing and scuba diving cake.
I offered up a personal cake as an auction item for our church. It was fun when the wife called with the request for a cake that incorporated fishing and scuba diving, two of her husband’s hobbies.
I haven’t sculpted a lot of people in my cake making “career” (it’s really just a hobby), so it was fun to get some practice with this. I thought my figurine looked like him too. What do you think?
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After brainstorming with my husband, we came up with the idea to elevate the top tier off the bottom tier and make it into a dock. I made this wood grain by first cutting in straight lines with straight edge and pizza cutter. I used the non-brush end of a paint brush to put the nail holes. I then lightly rolled my pizza cutter over the top to give it the wood-grain effect. To make the dock structure, I cut out a piece of thin particle board to the size of my small cake. I then cut  dowels to length and hammered in the 4 pilings to the square board. I covered the wooden dowels in fondant before sticking it into the cake. I then put my smaller cake onto of the structure I had built. I then covered it with the brown fondant.Â
I don’t generally do cakes with a frosting exterior. I am a fondant girl. However, in thinking about the water effects I wanted to create, from the ombre to the texture, I thought frosting would be the answer. I loved sculpting all the fish, tackle box and bucket. If you could see the other sides of the cake (I should have taken more pictures), you would see I also had a shark, stingray, crab and sea horse. My trick for making the scuba diver was to find a Google image I liked, printing it out, laying it on top of the fondant and cutting out the outline with an exacto-knife.Â
I generally like having my kids help me out with the cake making process. Kenzie was definitely able to help me bake the cake, which she really enjoys. However, I did the decorating on my own. It wasn’t a cake they could really help with at all.Â
