Shark Cake

My little boy LOVES sharks - seriously, just loves them.

We had a "ShArK" party that was lots of fun!

We made this shark cake & it was a hit!

SHARK CAKE tutorial:

Bake 2 cakes in a 9x13 can pan. 

When cool, get a large dinner plate and place on 1 cake.

Cut along the edges of the circle with a sharp knife.

Repeat cutting out circle on cake 2.

Take out circle on cake 1 and set aside.

On cake two - take out circle and cut the circle into a moon shape for the tail (as shown above)

Cut out 3 fins either out of the rest of the circle or the extra cake in the pan.

Put shark together on a large tray.

For frosting, add a couple drops of blue food dye to your favorite frosting, but leave 1 cup of the frosting white. If you do not want to use dye, use blueberry juice from a frozen bag of blueberries.

For a classic buttercream frosting click here.
Now, start frosting!

Start with the mouth. With a frosting spatula, spread the white frosting over the large circle into a mouth shape. However you want it to look. We did ours like above.
Now, frost the rest of your cake with the blue frosting.
Make sure you frost the creases well so it blends together.
For the mouth,
we bought black "red vines" licorice and peeled off strings of licorice.
We cut, laid, and peiced them into a perfect smiling mouth.
For the eyes,
we bought licorice circles, the ones that come in the plastic tubs with black and all different colors of licorice, and then we just placed a glob of frosting on top. If I had to do it again - I would buy Junior Mints .. much easier :)
For decorations, we just cut fish out of cardstock paper and taped them onto a toothpick.
You can add fun blue sprinkles, or whatever you would like!
Enjoy!