Oh, it’s been so fun seeing a lot of my favourite cake pages calling out for us to show our first cakes. This was one of mine dated back in 2010. I was super proud of this cake at the time – the top tier happened totally by accident. I had an idea in my head, and this was Not It.
Stealthy recovery and a “smoke and mirrors baby!” motto, I created rolling waves, tipped with RI and a nice slathering of piping gel (!!!!) brushed over the whole top tier. The coral were grape stems covered in RI. The piped dots were also a mistake. I was meant to do only 3 or 4 above a fish or seahorse as their air bubbles, but I did the first set smack in the front middle of the cake- with no sea life below it! AAAAAArrrgh. So the new design element was born and I went mad with the dot, dot here and a dot, dot there, everywhere a dot, dot…ahem.
And for those of you who noticed my very novice mistake of using a bottom cake board 1" bigger than my cake, well done! Oh and more fun facts about my mermaid cake? The top rock was a polystyrene takeaway container cut in half and molded into shape with the help of a blow dryer. I was ahead of my time people!! I don’t think I even knew about RCT, or even more obvious, making it out of cake! What a crack up. And YES, it was brand new and never used! I dunno about you, but I’m giving my 2010 self a big high five. Bhahahahaaahahah! Thanks so much for looking. Nina xoxo