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How to Create a Fun and Adorable Baby Shark Cake for Your Child’s Birthday Party
Gather the necessary ingredients and tools.
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Go all out with your baby shark cake decorating ideas! This rainbow cake uses smooth buttercream frosting as its base (here’s how to frost your cake artfully). Then use various baking techniques and food coloring to create the design you see. Rainbows, clouds and sunshine are just the beginning! [2].
Divide your favorite frosting into three batches and paint each batch a different shade of the same color. Place a wide ribbon around each cake and use a wide spatula to mix and smooth the frosting. They blend together elegantly with just a few swipes[2].
Once you have created all the fondant decorations, carefully place them on top of the cake and press lightly. You can make this DIY Baby Shark Birthday Cake as easy or as creative as you like! Personally, I chose lots of cheerful colors and festive seaside details. I used an ocean-themed fondant mold to create fondant starfish, seashells, and pink coral[3].
A simple white layer cake can be transformed into a delicious birthday treat with lots of colorful frosting. Fill a piping bag with several colors to create striped swirls. You can also use a small spatula to spread paint-like flecks on the sides of the cake[2].
Sure, the frosting is delicious, but a cake covered in ganache can be too decadent. baby shark cake decorating ideas like this are perfect for the chocolate lover in your life. Try it with this Four-Layer Chocolate Mousse Cake or some of our other favorite chocolate cakes[2].
This birthday cake decorating idea is so fun – and relatively easy. For this cake, you only need to bake a round cake. Then top it with red icing, shredded cheese (aka white chocolate rolls), and candy versions of your favorite toppings. Our test kitchen serves pepperoni-cut fruit roll-ups[2].
Don’t have a special icing tool handy? Using shaped cookies you can still create a beautiful themed design for your birthday cake. Save time by using store-bought products. Just place them on top of the cake or adhere them to the sides with extra frosting, like we did with our sweet carrot cake[2].
But you don’t need to stop there! You can swirl sprinkles right into your buttercream frosting. You can also press sprinkles onto the side of the cake for a truly fantastical confetti masterpiece. That’s what our Test Kitchen did for its best-ever vanilla birthday cake[2].
Assemble and decorate the cake to resemble a baby shark cake.
Once you’ve created all your fondant decorations, carefully place them onto the cake, pressing down lightly. You can make this DIY Baby Shark birthday cake as simple or as creative as you’d like! Personally, I went for lots of cheerful color and festive ocean details. I made the fondant sea stars, shells and pink coral using an ocean themed fondant mold[3].
This DIY baby shark birthday cake is a fun way to incorporate your child’s favorite song into their birthday celebration! You don’t have to be a cake master to create a Baby Shark birthday cake (believe me, I’m not). All you need is some small cake pans, a boxed cake mix, 1-2 tubs of icing, white fondant and food coloring[3].
Design your own fondant Baby Shark character using some basic shapes. Cut out a circle for the body using a cookie cutter or a jar lid. Cut out small triangles for the fins. Get creative and cut out the shark tail, mouth, teeth and eyes using a small knife. Fondant is forgiving and if you mess up, you can roll it back out and start again! [3].
Add final touches to the cake such as eyes and fins.
A simple white layer cake can transform into a showstopper birthday treat with plenty of colorful icing. Fill a piping bag with multiple colors to create streaked swirls. You can also use a small spatula to add paint-like daubs to the sides of your cake[2].
Bundt pans are naturally decorative, so why not use them as the foundation for your celebratory cake? Top these cakes with an easy glaze and a splash of sprinkles. You can also finish them off with a hefty dose of frosting—we call that a copycat Nothing Bundt Cakes cake[2].
A list of baby shark cake decorating ideas isn’t complete without a confetti cake. That’s why we’re putting this extra-fun cake front and center. This cake has confetti inside and outside. Plus, it gets one final finish with a candy-colored drip design[2].
Tips for a successful and stress-free cake-making experience.
Sure, frosting is delicious, but a cake covered in ganache can be over-the-top decadent. baby shark cake decorating ideas like this are perfect for the chocoholics in your life. Try it with this four-layer chocolate mousse cake or some of our other favorite chocolate cakes[2].
This baby shark cake decorating idea is super fun—and relatively fuss free. For this cake, you only need to make a single round cake. Then top with red frosting, shredded cheese (AKA white chocolate curls) and candy versions of your favorite toppings. Our Test Kitchen cut up fruit roll-ups for pepperoni[2].
Don’t have any special frosting tools on hand? You can still create a gorgeous themed design for your baby shark cake using shaped cookies. Use store bought to save time. Simply place them on top of the cake, or adhere them to the sides with extra frosting as we did with this darling carrot layer cake[2].
References :
1.85 Birthday Party Food Ideas for Kids I Taste of Home. (n.d.) retrieved April 21, 2024, from www.tasteofhome.com
2.30 Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas That’ll Steal the Show. (n.d.) retrieved April 21, 2024, from www.tasteofhome.com
3.How to Make a Baby Shark Birthday Cake. (n.d.) retrieved April 21, 2024, from createplaytravel.com/kids/diy-baby-shark-birthday-cake/
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