THE LITTLE MERMAID
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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.
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The cake is made from the famous "Chocolate Blackout Cake" recipe by Margaret Braun.  The filling is a chocolate meringue buttercream and the icing is a basic decorator's buttercream. 
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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 and overlayed it with a layer 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).
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