Today I’m showing you how make a Finding Dory Cake! This cake has been requested by tons and tons of viewers and I’m so excited to show you how to make a Jello Aquarium for Dory and Nemo, sitting on top of an ocean cake. Kids will love this cake at their Finding Dory themed birthday party!
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Who wouldn’t want a bowl full of jello on top of their birthday cake? I know I would love it! A Finding Dory cake has been requested over and over and as soon as I recognized the need for the cake, I knew a fish bowl topper was in order. I shouldn’t be surprised by anything anymore, but when the jello aquarium didn’t work out the first time I tried it, I was shocked! I tried clear jello, jello with a tiny bit of blue, and jello with a lot of blue. Then, I came up with the brilliant idea to put the dark blue jello in the bottom of the bowl, and fill it up with the lighter blue. While filling the bowl up jello, you will need to do it in layers so that Dory and friends don’t either lay on the bottom, or float to the top. Give yourself a couple of hours to all the jello/gelatin to set properly.
I went to a cake store in LA called Gloria’s cake supplies and found the sugar sea creatures and plastic sea cupcake toppers. I’ve included a link to amazon for those if you’re not in the LA area. It was kind of nice being in the big city and being able to find all sorts of specialty cake supplies in a real store. I used candy for most of the cake decorations, but you could use fondant or gum paste for everything if you preferred.
How to Make Finding Dory Cake with a Jello Aquarium
Ingredients:
–Clear jello (prepared)
-Blue jello (prepared according to box directions)
-8″ Fish bowl
-12″ round cake (prepared)
-Sky blue, medium blue, white buttercream (prepared )
–Dory and Nemo characters
–Mini fish plastic characters
-Sour Punch Straws candy
-Airheads Soft Filled Chewy Bites Candy
-Gum paste (pink and white)
-Jelly beans
Procedure:
1. Prepare blue jello and cut into chunks once set. Place chunks into bottom of fish bowl
2. Pour small amount of clear gelatin on top of blue jello. Place into fridge to set.
3. Place Dory, Nemo and fish characters into the set jello, near the sides of the bowl. Pour a bit more clear gelatin into the bowl (filling up to the middle of the characters), and place back in the fridge to set. Once characters are firmly in place, add the rest of the gelatin to cover them completely. Allow to set until needed on the cake.
4. Prepare cake and buttercreams as required.
5. Cut out porions of the cake for waves from the edges. Cover cake in sky blue buttercream. Place the medium blue buttercream in a piping bag, and cut of the end of the bag at an angle. Pipe 3-4 lines of buttercream around the sides of the cake, following the wave line created by the cake carving. Pipe a small amount of white buttercream, onto the top the wave line. Use a paint brush to blend the white into the blue.
6. Roll out small pieces of gum paste, and using small round cutters, remove some round segments from the gum paste for coral. Fold a single sour punch straw into four, pinch the end with 2 folds together, and cut the fold at the other end.
7. Arrange gum paste coral and other sea creatures etc on the cake. Place dowels or straws in the center area of the cake, and a small 4″ cake board on top. Place the fish bowl on top of the board. Cover any exposed board areas with buttercream.
8. Serve when desired. If traveling, leave fish bowl off of the cake, and place on top when arrived at destination.
9. Cake is best consumed within 2-3 days.
