HELP cake decorating advise needed URGENTLY!!!!!PLEASE

[katymac]

DD (8 tomorrow) has decided that she wants her cake decorated with dolphins

I had got pink and sparkley

I sent DH down to the late shop and have got some blue & white icing tubes and some light blue and silver writing tubes

HELP - how do I get dolphins on a cake

Please - I can't bear to disappoint her

pipe then dirctly onto the cake - practise drawing them first though.

additionally you could draw/trace a dolphin shape onto greasproof paper using pencil and them using a pin prick the outline onto the cake and pipe over it.

Buy some dolphin stickers and stick them all over and save yourself the hassle!

I can't draw - I can barely Ice

I'm stuffed aren't I?

there must be a book or somthig in the house with dolphins on? even an encyclopedia? using greasproof is easy to race.

the pin option is the easiest as more accurate.

simple dolphin template

additionally, if all else fails, your daughter is old enough to understand that telling you the night before is not practical really!

what have you got in the house that is dolphiny?

do you have any wrapping paper - toys - pictures - do you have a colour printer that you can print stuff out?

describe the actual cake - is it pre-iced and covered in 3d sparkles and goo?

can you make cakes??

I can make the icing look like waves with the white and blue icing

Then use ready roll dyed blue to cut out dolphins?

A couple on the top or little ones all the way roubnd?

Could you print off a dolphin picture, , a few if you can, Cut them out, and stick them to cocktail sticks which you could put into the cake? Or would that just look naff?

The cake is in my imagination - I was going to start as she went to bed

It is chocolate with chololate butter cream in the middle with white ready roll icing on top (to be covered in hearts and flowers with one of the barbie type sprinkle tubs)

Now I will get as far as the white ready roll icng and start thinking blue/sea/dolphins?

could I adapt this?

To cover the whole cake separate the areas with the blue tube icing and fill in between with runny icing?

far too complicated for a cake I think ... especially if you're not sure of your artistic skills

so you're starting from scratch .. great

hang on a tic .. let me see if I can find anything to help

Could trace this?

What I need is instructions to make a plasticine/playdoh one - then I can make it out of icing

I would do a round cake and cover in white icing then draw something like this on the top

use the stencil that phillipat gave you?

does she have any dolphin toys at all .. little ornaments ?

that would be easiest then you could still glitter sprinkle the cake and just pop on the little dolphins on the top

Can do the cake blue & white for the sea

Can cut out small white dolphins (from the stencil phillippat gave me - thank you Phillippat) and stick them round the edge

Then on top I can use these ideas to get a larger dolphin in blue/grey ?

why dont you make a fairy tale Dolphin cake?

OK AuntyMandy - but tell me how?

Off to bake cake - will be back when it is in the oven

Please be clever while I'm gone

Do the cake in flat blue icing and them use a cut out of a dolpin and dust it on with icing sugar?

That's nice idea - very sophisticted

And very easy!