Skill level: Intermediate
Mermaid birthday parties are all the rage right now and what better way to celebrate than with a super cute mermaid cake? This little beauty is perfect for your special occasion, complete with golden mermaid tail, cartoony eyes, cutesy nose and mouth and the long, beautiful mermaid hair we all wish we had when we were little.
Liz Marek teaches how to create this stunning gravity-defying cake, offering several tips and tricks on how to create hair (a tricky subject for many cake decorators) and how to get an awesome water effect on the cake board.
1:07:40 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- Learn how to create a cut stylized mermaid cake dipping out of the water
- How to make a gravity-defying cake structure
- Learn how to sculpt a posable mermaid tail
- How to make cute styled eyes, nose and mouth
- Liz Marek's tips and tricks for making beautiful hair easily
Tutorial Chapters
- Making the cake structure
- Making the bottom of chin
- Assembling cake structure
- Stacking the cakes
- Carving the head
- Making the top of head
- Crumbcoating the head
- Stacking the tail
- Carving the tail
- Making the tail tip
- Adding the nose
- Building up the shoulders
- Making the tail flipper
- Making skin-toned fondant
- Smoothing out the body
- Creating the eyes
- Adding the eyebrows
- Adding the mouth
- Paneling the tail in fondant
- Finishing the tail fins
- Painting the scales
- Adding the hair
- Making the water
- Adding the arms
Sculpted Mermaid Cake Tutorial
I grew up watching The Little Mermaid and loved it. It was my favorite Disney movie by far. Little did I know at the time, mermaids would become a trend, far into the future with no end in sight. Mermaids are EVERYWHERE right now, on the toy shelves, in the fashion department (I can't tell you how many "I am a mermaid" shirts I've seen lately) and online in my facebook feed every time I scroll through.
What better way to meet the trend than with a cutesy birthday cake?!
