Mermaid Dora

by Kimberly
(Idaho)

For her body I used a 14" round cake pan for her head and 18X22" pan for her body. On a sheet of freezer wrap paper I drew her head and body,basically making a stencil of her body. Then I laid each stencil onto each of the cakes and cut each shape out.

Her clothes and fin was covered by fondant icing that I colored individually. Her crown was also made using fondant icing with gems that I purchased at a local craft store - which had adhesives on the back of each (non-edible). Her fin I carefully used tints of blue and green and mixed until I got the fin color in a spiral effect, (I tried a small amount first to get the color I was looking for).

I then used a thin layer of buttercream icing on the cake before placing the fondant icing on to identify each portion of her body.

All together from start to finish, including cooking each cake it took approximately 8 hours. I used 4 boxes of cake mix and one whole box of ready mixed fondant-white.

The cake was inspired by my niece who was turning four and is a fan of Dora Explorer.