Hello all,
I need some ideas for an ocean theme cake. I have chocolate molds of a lighthouse, seagulls sitting on pilings, pelican, seashells, etc. that I will use white chocolate and paint with luster dust. I would like to incorporate them all into a cake but I can't seem to figure out where they should be placed and what shape pan to use. I have oval, hexagon, sheet and round pans in various sizes of each but am undecided which to use. I like the idea of brown sugar as sand but I really don't want to use piping gel as the ocean.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
a sketch for you.
based on two ovals, one carved away to give hill around a lagoon effect.
could do this w/ any shape actually.
bottom tiers is water blue with all kinds of undersea things on the sides (just couldn't drawn that shell that twists so tightly..and those vertical squiggles are seaweed)
on top of this tier in ocean area: waves and that's supposed to be a dolphin also a little dinghy w/ sail.
as we hit the shore, pelican on piling ...could add pier out into water and tie boat to it.
on the shore one sunbather --toasted.
a few palm trees
path up to light house at top of hill.
slope covered in "sand" of your choice.
sides of carved top tier could be "sand" or palm tree motif or little semaphore flags or life preserves (use lifesaver candies???)
HTH
Take my advice with a grain of sand/salt, as I'm not a professional LOL well not cake decorator anyway, but I'm a graphic designer and I love thinking of ideas of stuff anyway LOL
In my EXTREMELY limited experience- I found that the brown sugar for sand made the cake WAY Too sweet. Seems the pros here seem to like ground vanilla wafers or something like that. Also, I've seen some good oceans on here that weren't piping gel. I'm making an ocean as part of a cake on Saturday and am using just regular BC (also impossible to use large quantities of gel here anyway because in this small town you can't buy it in large quantities LOL)
Just an idea, maybe you can google tidepools -like with coral and sea stars (star fish) and what not, so make the ocean less of the focus than the sand and the shoreline with little tide pools and washed up shells and seaweed and creatures along the shore or just underwater (gel), then you could use gel but it wouldnt take over the cake, just use a tidbit of it to cover a few things on one edge of the cake to look like the shallowest part of the water? ANyway that's all I can think of besides all the beautiful ocean scenes I've seen in here and elsewhere 
(here's just a half assed example of what I mean http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~tcai/PIC/tidepool-theneighbours.jpg - if you google further you'll find prettier examples)
Hello all,
I need some ideas for an ocean theme cake. I have chocolate molds of a lighthouse, seagulls sitting on pilings, pelican, seashells, etc. that I will use white chocolate and paint with luster dust. I would like to incorporate them all into a cake but I can't seem to figure out where they should be placed and what shape pan to use. I have oval, hexagon, sheet and round pans in various sizes of each but am undecided which to use. I like the idea of brown sugar as sand but I really don't want to use piping gel as the ocean.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
or google 'lighthouses' and see if any photos/scenes jump out at you (there are lots of sites of various lighthouses to check out- I know cause I've looked for them for an article I wrote, I'll dig them up if you want)
You could 'recreate' with or without modifications, rocky cliff-like thing jutting out into the ocean, with lighthouse atop, waves crashing against rocks below?
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