Ronnie's Birthday Fish Cake

Yesterday was Brian's Dad Ronnie's birthday. One of Ronnie's favorite passtimes is fishing. We decided to have all of the family get together (which doesn't happen often enough) and celebrate. I jumped on the opportunity to improve my cakemaking skills and decided to make Ronnie a widemouth bass fish cake. Have a look:

I first started by researching pictures of bass online. After that I sketched out my design.


in a tribute to Steele Magnolias I just knew the inside cake flavor for the fish had to be red velvet. I started by baking a red velvet cake.


I then sculpted the red velvet cake into some form of a fish.


The fish cake was then crumb coated with delicious homemade buttercream.


I needed the top and tail fins to be hard so I made those in advance.


For the base of the cake we chose marble.


My mom was a big help. I love teaching and learning with her. After we decorated the base of the cake we had to get the bass ready to be placed in his new home. We Covered the fish with scales.


I painted the bass with shading and shimmer.


Here is the finished cake. I just love him! He was delicious too!




EXTREME CLOSE-UP!!



I'll blog later about the fish being fileted at the restaurant as he made the ultimate sacrifice for Ronnie's birthday. There was quite a but of interest from everyone in the restaurant. Strangers were coming up to admire and we had sooooooo much cake we shared with the kitchen! They loved it too!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY RONNIE!!