Sakura Goldfish Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

This tutorial goes under the sea with a beautiful ocean-themed design. Learn how to make a Sakura goldfish cake, featuring a gravity-defying cake structure, edible coral elements, sculpted fish fins that hold their shape, edible shiny fish eyes and a hand-painted pattern, along with a watery reflective cake board.

There's a lot to cover in this tutorial, so let's get our tools together and let's get started!

1:19:46 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to make a realisticly sculpted goldfish cake
• Learn how to create edible fish fins that flow and hold their shape
• How to make a shiny reflective cake board that looks like water
• Learn how to make realistic coral and edible fish eye elements

Tutorial Chapters

1. Making the base 0:39
2. Creating the structure 8:16
3. Making the coral structure 16:53
4. Adding and sculpting cake 22:14
5. Shaping the cake 25:17
6. Frosting the cake 30:38
7. Making rice paper sails 32:06
8. Adding the fins and tail 40:57
9. Adding fondant 43:22
10. Shaping the fish 47:31
11. Dusting the fish 49:26
12. Finishing adding fins 51:38
13. Making the coral 53:18
14. The eyes 58:30
15. Painting the fish white 1:00:36
16. Decorating the board 1:12:33
17. Painting the fish orange 1:15:51