Beach Cake....

Last week was my cousin Jerry-Lee's 12th Birthday and for the occasion I made her a beach cake for her love of surfing and the beach. Also she has much admiration for the movie 'Surfer Girl' so I couldn't help myself and put a shark fin in the water also.

To talk you through a bit about the techniques I used for this cake first up I give you the recipe link for the Caramel Mudcake.
I doubled the quantities mentioned and made 2 rectangular cakes with the mixture.
Allowed both cakes to cool and used one as the base and the other to carve the 2 waves, the shark fin and the surfboard.
I covered all parts of the cake in buttercream icing and covered the waves, surfboard and shark fin in appropriately coloured fondant.
For the sand I used a packet of Arnott's Nice biscuits and put them thoroughly through the food processor.  (I also added a teaspoon of edible glitter to the sand too to give it a bit of shimmer)
Over the top of the blue fondant for the water I swished around with a spatula a tub of 'Wilton Piping Gel' that I had coloured blue to give it a real water glossy-like effect.
Finally I used buttercream to decorate the surfboard, create the foam in the waves and write her Jerry-Lee's name in the sand.

From my favourite cooking shop How to Cook I got the shells which are made from sugar and give the finishing touch to the cake. This therefore made the entire cake edible and very much loved by my cousin.