This cake was SO MUCH FUN. I was able to make the icing pieces days in advance so it was very peaceful sitting making different pieces of coral! The cake itself is just a simple two layer cake (with a second cardboard base and supports this time!) iced with pre-coloured blue frosting.
Then I just had to stick all of the decorations on and put in the fishies (which were bought plastic ones!) and that was it! Actually one of the simplest cakes I had done in a long time, but the most effective!
We decorated the hall with hanging crepe paper and balloons, and some home made jellyfish and some blow up sea creatures from eBay.
Once again I had a bit of fun with the food!
I hollowed out a watermelon to make a shark for Shark Berry Salad :)
Kathryn loves fresh veg so I've got a Veggie Reef (and dips!)
I made some Nemo & Dory biscuits but didn't have time to ice them! :(
We also had life rings (party rings!) and Fish Bowl Jelly (with the extra pack of blue jelly left from Alexander's birthday earlier in the year!)
Gummy Fish were a simple extra too!
I cut out some of the scooped out watermelon into star shapes, for Watermelon Starfish (also because Kathryn doesn't like watermelon so I didn't want to put it in the Shark Berry Salad!)
Some Fish & Chip crisps, some Cheesy Goldfish and some Dolphin-shaped Sandwiches (I have a sandwich cutter that does exactly that for me!) finished off the feast!
We made sock fish as a party craft - a simple idea for little ones. It's just a sock with a couple fistfuls of stuffing and a wee bag of plastic pellets (or beans/rice!) that I had pre-prepared, then an elastic band to hold it tight closed, cut off the leftover, draw on eyes and voila, a sock fish!
They had lots of fun throwing the sock fish through the holes for different points.
And the piñata was a jellyfish -super simple to make - I just made a few layers inside a bowl, then once it had dried I removed it from the bowl (I recommend lining the bowl with clingfilm first for easy removal afterwards!) taped on a cardboard base and carefully added a few more layers of paper mache before decorating with tissue paper and crepe paper for streamers.
Now, since her big brother had a lovely fruit cake at school for his birthday, Kathryn wanted something similar for hers. Unfortunately she doesn't like watermelon, as I said, which is the base for my fruit cakes! As a solution, I made her some ladybirds out of cherries (with seeds removed) and strawberries, stuck together with some melted chocolate, and some raspberry and blueberry ladybirds too, where I just stuck the blueberry inside the raspberry! The bottom layer is a blueberry stuck on the end of half a tomato, with coloured Philadelphia Cheese. :)
And of course, she needed a cake at home too on her actual birthday. :)
I made the spots by making cake balls (with a mould) first and then putting them in the red cake mixture before cooking (in a dome shaped cake tin!)
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