Little Mermaid Cake

I have been wracking my brains to come up with a cake design for a Little Mermaid cake for a boy! I guess most people usually associate the Little Mermaid, if not all the Disney Princesses, with girls! I couldn't make a Little Mermaid doll cake, that's for sure. And I didn't want to use pinks and purples and pearls on the cake cuz that would make it too feminine. 

The Little Mermaid-themed cake

Instead, I settled on an "under the sea" design, using blue, red, yellow and green to keep it suitable for a boy. The cake is devil's food cake, filled with dark chocolate ganache, dirty iced with chocolate French buttercream and decorated with vanilla French buttercream. 

Under-the-sea seaweed,  coral and starfish details

The green seaweed was piped on using a no. 104 (the same tip used for piping roses!). I used a no. 5 round nozzle to pipe the star fish and the coral. 

Birthday boy's name, Flounder-style!

I cut the birthday boy's name out of fondant and decorated to look like Flounder (Ariel's best fish friend). All the figurine toppers are plastic toys. 

View from the top

Happy 7th Birthday, Zachary!