Designing my cake - beach theme

[mnickerson23]

Hi everyone. My name is Megan. I'm getting married next august on block island in rhode island. My step sister is making my wedding cake (she is an amazing baker). I was thinking about having her put molds of seashells all over the cake. What do you think? I need ideas! thank you :o

[WebLady]

Sounds like a great idea :)

Here are some pics you might find inspiration in ...

http://www.cakeamerica.com/images/image1/seashell-wedding-cake-859.jpg

http://www.maisiefantaisie.co.uk/cakepopup/seashellweddingcake.jpg

http://www.edencakes.com/portfolio/medium/p0020-sm.jpg

[mnickerson23]

I love the blue cake with the fish bowl! that is sooo cute. thank you for the ideas!:o

[Gertie]

I'm helping a friend with the wedding of her only child on the beach in South Padre in May. Another friend is making her cake, and she's using a fish bowl in a bit different way.

She's got one of those big round sort of flat fish bowls, and it's going between the large bottom and middle layer of the cake. She will use five dowels to hold the bowl from squishing the bottom layer, then she will place the second layer on a white plastic plate. Between the second layer and the top, a fish bowl like in that picture will be between the layers. She has already painted some fish and bubbles on the inside of the fish bowls! The cake will then be decorated with white chocolate shells and star fish being ordered online from some famous chocolate company. She plans to dust them with edible gold leaf, and add bubbles "floating up the cake" on the middle and top layers, which will also be touched with edible gold leaf. She is going to make sand out of sugar colored with food coloring and sprinkle it around the base of the cake. Can't wait to see it because the bowls are adorable and it sounds amazing. I can't figure out how she knew how to paint those little fish on in reverse since they are painted on the inside of the bowls. :)

[mnickerson23]

thank you soo much for your input! it really helped!

[SerendipityCrafts]

You might also check out these threads for more beach inspiration -

Beach
http://forums.onewed.com/showthread.php?t=1788
http://forums.onewed.com/showthread.php?t=3060
http://forums.onewed.com/showthread.php?t=1076

I also like searching flickr for ideas. Here is a search for beach theme wedding cake - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=beach%20theme%20wedding%20cake&w=all

[Danielle9608]

Welcome to the boards Megan! I got married on a beach in Cape Cod not to far away from you. This was my cake:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff190/danielle9608/1590.jpg

[SunnyAB]

I've never seen your cake Danielle - its gorgeous!!!

[BarceloMayaPalaceBride]

I love the cakes!!! We are doing a beach cake for our AHR in June. (We were married in Mexico in January) We have a close friend who will be doing the baking and I'm so excited!!! Heres the cake we had in Mexico, but the one for the AHR will be 3-4 tiers and I'm not sure exactly what I want it to look like. I made the chocolate starfish from molds at Michael's. I brought them ALL the way from Colorado to put on our cake :) http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp138/Davematthews16/CAKE.jpg

[BnB]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/57106276_f14ea6fb2a_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/weddingcakes/57106276/in/set-1245512/)

[BnB]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/57106149_90a9fd1601.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/35/121571173_dfcde33130.jpg?v=0

[BnB]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2291/2443400677_cca1190425.jpg?v=0

[BnB]

http://ac4.yt-thm-a04.yimg.com/image/46f5992eaf6e4f38 (http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTbx8nPbFJgg4AAzaJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBpc2ozM2g zBHBvcwM0BHNlYwNzcgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=1me12qdqe/EXP=1236438695/**http%3A//images.search.yahoo.com/images/view%3Fback=http%253A%252F%252Fimages.search.yahoo .com%252Fsearch%252Fimages%253Fp%253Dsandcastle%25 2Bwedding%252Bcake%2526sp%253D1%2526fr2%253Dsp-top%2526y%253DSearch%2526ei%253DUTF-8%2526fr%253Dsfp%2526x%253Dwrt%2526js%253D1%2526ni %253D21%2526ei%253DUTF-8%2526SpellState%253Dn-3771781705_q-k.PFXNxSEkNZVj8sq7O8JQAAAA%2540%2540%26w=100%26h=1 34%26imgurl=lapatisseriecapemay.com%252Fbeachtheme %252F4lysandcastleth.jpg%26rurl=http%253A%252F%252 Flapatisseriecapemay.com%252Fcustomcakes.html%26si ze=15.3kB%26name=4lysandcastleth.jpg%26p=sandcastl e%2Bwedding%2Bcake%26type=JPG%26oid=46f5992eaf6e4f 38%26no=4%26tt=38%26sigr=11fpodnoe%26sigi=11molimu 3%26sigb=1606qr6p9)

[BnB]

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=sandcastle+wedding+cake&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&y=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&js=1&ni=21&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-3771781705_q-k.PFXNxSEkNZVj8sq7O8JQAAAA@@

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=sandcastle+wedding+cake&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

[Danielle9608]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/57106149_90a9fd1601.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/35/121571173_dfcde33130.jpg?v=0
wow this castle cake is really cool!

[BnB]

http://www.knotforlife.com/images/cakes/seashells-starfish-cake-sml.jpg (http://www.knotforlife.com/planning/cake/seashell-starfish.shtml)

[BnB]

http://www.lapatisseriecapemay.com/beachtheme/4lysandcastlelg.jpg

http://www.lapatisseriecapemay.com/alloccasions/sandcastlestaircakesmall.jpg

http://www.lapatisseriecapemay.com/custom/9-6-033tiersandcastlecake.jpg

[BnB]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/56929081_be81d28dcf_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/weddingcakes/56929081/)

[BnB]

<a href='http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/sandcastle-cake-2008-10-02.htm'><img src='http://www.pinkcakebox.com/images/cake797.jpg' alt='SandCastle Cake'></a>

http://www.grandweddings.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/beach-wedding-cake.jpg

[mnickerson23]

These cakes are great! My stepsister is really creative, so i think she will be able to make an amazing cake, especially with all the great ideas you all are giving me!:)

[savepaws]

Welcome!

The sand castle cakes are pretty cool!

[chickprincess]

I suggest that you just put seashell and starfish designs on the cake and some beads to add a "sparkling" look. Match the colors of the cake with summer or the ocean. Aqua, white, yellow, pink, brown..


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Oru85PggvJw/SSleimwKwuI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/KjHrNnwG89o/s320/beach+wedding+cakes--blue+with+shells.jpg

http://z.hubpages.com/u/855319_f260.jpg

Hope this helps! :)

[WebLady]

Hope this helps! :)
FYI - this thread is several months old and the OP is no longer active ;)

[ericwalter]

Hello friend,
So you are going to celebrate your wedding in rhode island,it's a nice place you will enjoy a lot..
If you are thinking of a wedding cake then it's a nice idea....There are many cakes,but I have an idea you can choose some theme based cake like you are going at an island then you can choose some white cakes like have you ever tried snowfish cake it's very tasty and looks very beautiful,or you can use different cake boxes. They are also very beautiful and increases cakes beauty..We have tried it in our anniversary,and it had really made the whole cake very beautiful and different,as you said that your step sister is preparing cake so you can't make more changes in it.. So you can use beautiful cake boxes..:p


Regards,
Eric

[Mrs.Johnson111111]

omg...all these cakes are amazing. I never thought about a beach themed cake. I personally love the ones done in white icing and with white sea shells and brown sugar for the sand...

I'm sure whatever you go with is gonna look awesome

[asmtriode]

:hearts:woa that so great
see that now I want to get married;)
but not have groom right now huhu
i hope in my future wedding there will be have a awesome cake like you
it will be coming soon??:yesnod:
have good days, my friends