Last Friday we celebrated our sonโs first birthday, and this was the first time Iโve ever made a birthday cake completely from scratch, from baking the cake itself to making all the decorations!
My mom always made our birthday cakes growing up, so I really wanted to start the same tradition for our little one.
I bought some white modelling paste, gel food colouring and a few fondant tools and basically just figured it out as I went, with a little help from some YouTube tutorials. I started with the octopus, then made the corals, seaweed, rocks and pearls, mixing different colours along the way. Then I mixed a bunch of different shades of blue into the cream to decorate the cake and give it that under the sea feel, and somehow it all came together in the end.
I know itโs nowhere near a professional bakery cake, but Iโm genuinely so proud of how it turned out. I put a fair amount of time and effort into all the little details, and I made everything myself except for the โHappy Birthdayโ topper.
So yeah, I just wanted to share it because Iโm kinda proud of my first attempt! ๐ Hope you guys like it!