our little fishy cake :)

"THE BIG ONE" FISH CAKE-HOW I DID IT WITHOUT LOSING MY MIND!

the scales

i got a set of biscuit cutters for my wedding that i registered for. when registering, of course, i was the perfect wife and my husband would have fresh biscuits for breakfast, fast-forward almost 4 years now and i've made one batch of biscuits with them. and i'm pretty sure mitchy didn't even eat one. poor husband. i did dig them out of the cupboard when i was trying ot think of something rounded to use instead of cutting each one individually like i did for a few of the scales, until i got to thinking about it.

so anyway...this is a biscuit cutter probably not even an inch around. i started on one end of a

piece of fruit by the foot and swirled it around to the other end:

and then it got to looking like this:

but then the next one was too rounded on the one end:

so, with the pizza cutter mitchy and i have leftover from college, i trimmed it each time:

here are all the scales. i put waxed paper between them in case they'd have stuck together, i'm sure glad i did this...fruit by the foot is sticky! this allowed them to dry out a little too, making them easier to handle while applying them to the cake:

here's the pizza cutter after all of the cutting. it was kind of nice that they just stuck to the pizza cutter...less mess!

here are two 9'' round cakes. i used a box cake mix, because i've never really tried a from-scratch cake.

i cut one of the rounds in half and stuck them together with frosting.

these are the side fins:

here's the tail fin:

there was even enough leftover for blaise's very own fishy smash cake! :) i frosted this and he had a grand ol time with it! :)

here it is assembled. i used frosting and one skewer on the top fin from the top to the bottom of the cake and one from the top of the tail fin to the bottom of the cake for support:

here is the crumb-coat:

after putting the final frosting on the fish i put two fruit slices together and stuck it into the cake with a blob of frosting. i stuck a toothpick in it for support and never took it off...i was afraid the weight of the candy would make it fall off:

here it is: scales put on! :) i used a toothpick press them into place one behind the other alternating colors as i went. i tried to texture the frosting on the fins, but got too nervous about destroying the cake that i just gave up. oh well. i used a candy button for the eye and a blob of darker colored frosting to hold it in place:

i stuck the candles in the cake when i got to the site and it was ready :)

our little fishy with his fish cake! :)