Dolphin cake…
This cake was made for a birthday girl who used to train dolphins, sea lions, & penguins in Hawaii. The names represent her favorite animals. It is a white vanilla almond cake with chocolate ganache and fresh sliced strawberry filling. The dolphins are hand sculpted from modeling chocolate. The other animals are hand painted and made out of fondant. The sphere cake on top is made out of rice krispies.
January 12th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
AWESOME CAKE!
A great example at how personalized you can make cakes. Took a love for work and turned it into a wonderful cake; and it tasted great too!
This will be a birthday that will not be forgotten.
Thanks again,
John
October 9th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
I have a granddaughter that is going to have a 13th B-day on March 17, 2011 of next year…she wants me to make her cake…she wants a 3 tier twilight cake with a round bottom cake with columns, a round middle cake with columns, and a third cake on top that is a chocolate cheesecake…the bottom two cakes she wants chocolate with different filligs and one with black and white checker board with chest players and characters from the movies on both the bottom cake and middle cake…any ideals where I can find everything I need or need to make for these cakes…we have a cake shop where I live to get the right pans and equipments…but I am not sure on how to do the fondant…help Mary Thank you…please e-mail me.
October 11th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Hi Mary,
If you have a craft store nearby like Michaels or Joanns they carry cake supplies made by Wilton. Walmart also usually has a small supply of these things. You can home make fondant but I like to use Wilton’s fondant. For the checkerboard you just need a square cookie cutter and you can either hand mold the chess pieces or buy a mold for them. There are lots of online cake/candy supply stores to get things like that. I like to order from Country Kitchen Sweetart online. If you have never worked with fondant before I suggest doing a practice run prior to the cake. There are lots of great instructional videos on youtube that people have made on how to use fondant. Good luck with the cake! This is exactly how we both started making cakes..we just bought some stuff and tried it out. Found out we loved doing it and learned with each new cake we made. Email us a picture of your final cake!