THE LITTLE MERMAID January 21, 2007
This cake was made for Tristan’s 4th birthday party on January 21, 2007. She is the daughter of my friends and colleagues, Shawna and Ryan Upp.
Design What else would a little girl want but the Little Mermaid??? The Little Mermaid actually showed up at the party and had all the little girls dress in costume and do a skit. It was quite fun to watch.
Cake This cake was made from the ever-so-favorite chocolate blackout cake recipe by Margaret Braun.
Filling Creamy chocolate meringue buttercream.
Icing Basic decorator’s buttercream.
Decoration Ariel, Flounder and the bubbles are made with royal icing from a technique called “color flow”. I took an image from one of Tristan’s Disney coloring books and enlarged it. Then taped the image onto a cookie sheet with an overlay sheet of parchment. Then I traced the image with stiff royal icing and let dry. Then filled in the traced outline with thinned royal icing (by adding water) and let dry for two days. I used food coloring pens to paint in the facial features (nose, eyes, mouth).
