Hi all! I am making a mermaid cake this week and I'm trying to figure out a substitution for the scales.
http://www.family.go.com/recipes/spe.../cake_mermaid/
is where it's located with a picture of it.
I'm wanting the replace the necco wafers with something else...I can't come up with anything cool. any thoughts?
Thanks!
MERMAID CAKE
• 1 baked 8-inch round cake
• 1 baked 13- x 9- x 2-inch cake
• 12 baked cupcakes
• 8 cups frosting (white, blue and yellow)
• Necco wafers (pink, green and purple)
• 2 green Necco wafers and 2 blue M&M's for eyes
• Shoestring licorice eyelashes
• Fruit by the Foot mouth
• Colored sugar
Step 1:
Cut and arrange the cakes as shown in the small photos.
Step 2:
Frost the mermaid's tail blue and cover it with Necco wafers. Frost the head and body white and the bikini top blue.
Step 3:
Add the candy eyes and mouth. Frost the cupcake curls yellow, then sprinkle on colored sugar for marine sheen.