Under the Sea Cake

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This whimsical underwater scene can be decorated in one swish of a mermaid's tail.
From http://familyfun.com  No larger photo was provided.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click the links for the products (items not linked can be found locally and are not listed for sale at http://www.sugarcraft.com):
• baked 13" x 9" x 2" cake
• 2 to 3 cups blue icing
• 1 cup white icing to divide & tint blue, green & gray
• yellow, red, royal blue, kelly green, black (for gray) food coloring
• Green apple Sour Belts
• Blue and/or green fruit leather
Candy rocks
• Candy seashells & fish:
  Molds
  Coating chocolate
• Gummy sea creatures, such as fish, sharks, and octopuses
• Mini Swedish fish, can make using coating chocolate
• Sour tropical fish, can make using coating chocolate
Tip #104

Ice the cake white. Then place a few globs of blue icing ontop and smooth it out.
Add the 'bubbles', tip 5 or 6 in red and yellow.
Add the seaweed using tip #104, royal blue, kelly green, gray.
Place the seashells, fish and candy rocks on to complete your cake.



To go along with the cake:
From http://family.go.com
Fish Food Cupcakes
Don't let the name fool you. These cupcakes are worth swimming to the top for.

• 1 baked cupcake
Food coloring
• Or you can buy blue & white icing
• Yellow and red fruit leather
• Button candies (or M&M's Minis)
• 1 candy eye
 
Step 1:
Frost the cupcake with blue and white icing. Cut the fruit leather into a fish shape and place on the cupcake.
 
Step 2:
Add button candies (or M&M's Minis) "bubbles," a fruit leather "mouth," and a sugar eye (use some frosting "glue" or water to attach the eye).