Flip-Flops & Bikini Cake

by Liwan Degnan
(Poughkeepsie, NY)

I made this flip-flops & bikini cake for a co-worker's daughter, for her 14th birthday party. I was disappointed to find out that my grocery store didn't have icing, so I forced myself to make my own buttercream... Needless to say, I won't ever buy icing again! I didn't realize it would taste better.

So the cake is a double-layered 13x9 cake with homemade buttercream frosting, and I used spray color to go from orange on the bottom to fade to yellow on top. Next I took fondant and cut out the bikini top and bottom and used a flower cut-out used for fondant or gum paste to decorate it. I made the flip-flops out of waffles (shaped it) and put frosting on one side so I could put strips of fondant over it without having the waffle print come through. Then I used candy necklaces for the thongs on the flip-flops and made the bikini a halter-top.