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Allergic To Fish Fish Cake!

By Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

Super cute Adele from Dace (incidentally one of my favorite Vancouver clothing brands) ordered a hilarious cake for her boyfriend Ryan’s birthday bash: a fish cake on a platter complete with lettuce and tomatoes, as Ryan is very allergic to the real thing! This fish cake stressed me out beyond mental reason– I think I worried about it for two weeks straight, and could not sleep the night before the beginning of Fogerty the Fish’s production, this being my very first fish cake. I drew out my design and tried to think like a little cake engineer: how would I make this large sheet cake look like a ridiculously adorable fish about to be eaten for dinner??

Thanks to my husband and jack of all trades Richie for helping me carve my fish Fogerty into a nice fish shape! And of course for helping me “lay down the roof tiling” on my little fishy’s scales. You are the best RT!!!

Here is the “making of” of Fogerty the Fish. Enjoy!!

Pre-Fogerty: diagrams, diagrams help me lots.

First, a giant sheet cake! Eggless chocolate cake, with vanilla buttercream.

“The first trim is the deepest”

The second trim is much better: Rich Trawick to the rescue! Master Carver!

Delightful carved away cake, to be eaten at a later time by probably Rich Trawick

Freshly frosted once again, post-carve!

Two different colors of green fondant later, the cake is covered, with fins intact…

Much later: the finished product!! Tomatoes and lettuce, and Rich helped perfect the scales!

“Le Poisson, le poisson… Hee hee hee haw haw haw!”

Close-up of my cute little tomatoes and veined lettuce.

“Qui, moi, Fogerty??” looking sad with his gift for Ryan, the tomato topped cupcake.

Adele, hope Ryan had a great birthday party!!! Til next time blog world,

xo

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  1. confetti

    July 31, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Lyndsay- you are a Genius!!! looks amazing!

    Reply
  2. jeanie

    July 31, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    OMG AWESOME! (:

    Reply
  3. jj

    July 31, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Yes! Les poissons, les poissons, how I love ce poisson!

    Reply
  4. kickpleat

    July 31, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    so rad lyndsay!! love the little sad fish guy.

    Reply
  5. Jennywenny

    July 31, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    I love the whole story behind it too! As I said on flickr, thanks for making a cute looking and not gross fishy!

    Reply
  6. gyoza*girl

    July 31, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    oh so many crazy good cakes and cupcakes you’ve done my lil sis! this is definitely one of the BEST ones ever. poor lil fogerty the fish. he looks so sad but he makes so many others smile! :) as Bro says “fishie fishie! fishie fishie!”

    Reply
  7. lyndsay

    July 31, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    thanks everyone!!!

    yes, poor fogerty… !!! :)

    Reply
  8. SweetThings

    July 31, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    Lindsay – it turned out wonderfully! So perfect!

    Reply
  9. lyndsay

    August 1, 2009 at 12:33 am

    thanks juanita!! :)

    Reply
  10. apparentlyjessy

    August 1, 2009 at 1:25 am

    What a masterpiece! I love the action shots, and yep, you sure do make very appetising fish cakes!

    Reply
  11. The Parental Units

    August 1, 2009 at 1:42 am

    oh man! what can you NOT do?! fogerty needs to become a storybook character, no?

    Reply
  12. The Parental Units

    August 1, 2009 at 1:44 am

    (oops, sorry, my deleted comment above was just a repeat.)

    Reply
  13. Snooky doodle

    August 1, 2009 at 6:04 am

    this looks great. you did a marvelous job.

    Reply
  14. lyndsay

    August 1, 2009 at 8:10 am

    thank you!! me and fogerty appreciate the comments muchly!! :)

    Reply
  15. pauline

    August 2, 2009 at 6:50 am

    whoa!! it’s so cute!!

    Reply
  16. Mini Baker

    August 3, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    HAHAHA ADORABLE! it makes me laugh, but it also looks delicious! nothings better than eggless chocolate cake! :) BRAVO!

    Reply
  17. lyndsay

    August 4, 2009 at 3:50 am

    hah!! thanks pauline and mini B!

    Reply
  18. Sheryl

    August 4, 2009 at 7:27 am

    i love it!! i like how you did the contrast with a few deep green scales here and there. Oh and the tomatoes so cute. And how nice of your hubby to help you out.. I often have my boy helping me decorate cupcakes and he comes up with the most creative ideas too.

    love your work!

    Reply
  19. lyndsay

    August 4, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    thanks for stopping by and thanks for the nice comment sheryl! :)

    Reply
  20. Jennifer

    August 7, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    Lucky, lucky RT, who gets to eat those cut-away pieces!

    This is a beautiful piece of work. Congratulations!

    Reply

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