We recently just finished baking a fish themed cake- more specifically, a Discus inspired cake.
For those who don't know what a Discus fish looks like (we didn't exactly know what it was either), it looks like this:
MAKING THE DISCUS
We made the fish out of gumpaste that Dalia coloured a nice pale orange. Using a balling tool (or your fingers if you don't have one), flatten the sides of the fish so that the fins look thinner than the rest of the fish's body. For the fins, we used a small knife to make the marks and used the tip of a straw to make the scales of the fish.
Using an edible food marker, draw lines/ spots (depending on what kind of Discus you want to make) to create the markings on the fish. Just let your creativity flow!
To finish it off, paint the whole fish with a mixture of yellow food colouring and vodka (don't worry, as the paint dries, the Vodka will evaporate). Of course, don't forget the little fishy's eye! Just use black fondant and place it on top of a slightly larger piece of orange fondant that we outlined with a little brown food colouring to make the eyes pop!
DECORATING THE CAKE
For the sides of the cake, we used a cookie cutter to cut out the fondant circles and placed a starfish on each coloured circle. As for the sand, we crumbled the cake scraps we had over the top. (Brushing the cake with a little water helps secure the crumbs.) We then added some colourful pebbles made of out fondant. As a final touch, we glazed the name on the cake board with some edible gold glitter.
And that's all to it!
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