Mermaid cake

[sabotabby]

There's a longer story to this, which deserves a locked post, but the short version is that we're having a school event and one of my kids is really into mermaids and asked me if I could make a mermaid cake.

Like you can't just say, "[Sabs] can you make a mermaid cake?" and not have me auto-respond, "I HAVE BEEN WAITING MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE TO DO SO OMG" before I realize the logistics involved.

So I made a mermaid cake.










I think it actually looks better IRL and I'm pretty sure it's going to actually taste good, as the individual components all taste good. Maybe not Pinterest worthy but pretty respectable!

Comments

[nyctanthes]

Awesome cake! Love the octopus/squid. And of course the mermaid.

[sabotabby]

That was a last minute thing. It took me three tries to get the tail right and on the last one, I had a bit left over and I was too lazy to put it back in the container. So, octopus.

[notasupervillain]

Ahhhhh it's so cheerful and happy and well made and I love it.

Is this what Blythe is gonna find in the ocean? :P

[sabotabby]

If she did, it'd be the Seanan McGuire sort of mermaid. Not very cheerful at all.

[notasupervillain]

And not such a friendly octopus either!

ETA: Counts. Squid.

[minoanmiss]

It's gorgeous!

[sabotabby]

Thank you!

[ironed_orchid]

It's amazing.

[sabotabby]

I think I have outdone myself.

[wolby]

it's even shiny!! are those real shells?

[sabotabby]

No, they're fondant. Edible and vegan!

[sara]

It's glorious. And you're spared the possibility that a bunch of high-schoolers will start arguing over who's going to eat the boobs, so go you.

[sabotabby]

Oh no, when I make a cake the argument usually revolves around who will be the first to cut into it because it's, quote, "too pretty to eat." I had to force a kid to do it. Like I don't make these things to hang in a gallery; they're also tasty!

[smhwpf]

That is an awesome cake of pure joy and awesomeness!

[sabotabby]

I had two slices because it was so tasty.

The second slice was a Bad Idea.

[franklanguage]

It's totally Pinterest-worthy; there are plenty of bakeries that can't do that.

And it's vegan! Are your kids aware of why it's so important to be vegan in today's world?

[sabotabby]

Part of my ongoing baking issue is that there are a lot of vegan bakeshops and bakeries that will do vegan in this city, and most of them aren't as good as I am.

They do know! They may not care, or think that they can, but they're certainly aware of how much impact animal agriculture has on the environment. At least two of them are vegan and one of them is vegetarian but lactose intolerant, which is 75% of the way there. We end up talking about it a lot, mainly because they offer me some kind of food I can't eat, then they ask me why I'm vegan, and I tell them.

But I think my cakes are really the best conversion tool. Yes, you can make tasty things whilst minimizing cruelty and your carbon footprint. (AFAIK there's nothing with palm oil in the cake either.)