Mermaid Cake!

Ok, so my daughter is two now. But she doesn’t have the communication skills to tell me what she’d like as a theme for her birthday. And then there’s my husband who will say, “Why do we need a theme?!” She’s just soaking everything up like a sponge right now and I was overwhelmed with ideas for birthday ideas.

Then there was the fact that my birthday is 4 days earlier.

So this year I decided to pick turquoise and purple decorations and come what may. But while I was in the process of picking out decorations I noticed a mermaid theme emerged from my choices. So you could kind of say that her cake picked me…

Or not.

So my family is arriving and I’ve only given her cake a crumb coat. Do I compromise and finish the cake quick? No, I do not. I am so proud of the time and effort I put into this sucker. And it was eaten so fast that I’m lucky I got pictures in time.

In the back of my mind I was thinking of a pin I’d saved from years earlier here. I thought instead of petals, I could make mermaid scales.

I picked 3 colours and iced dots of each colour on the sides. Then I used a spoon to smooth down the right side of each dot. Then I wiped excess icing on a paper towel. It was time consuming but not at all difficult. Here are my steps.