has anyone made a swimming pool cake?

[mimsum]

ds2's having a swimming party next weekend and I thought I'd continue the theme with a pool cake - has anyone made one and if so, do you have any tips to pass on? I'm planning on making a large rectangle madeira cake, blue buttercream icing for the water, lego people for the swimmers but I'm not sure how to do the tiles round the side or starting blocks??

thanks

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looks easy enough

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Yes ! I've done one (although it wasn't entirely a success )

I used a madeira rectangular sponge with a recessed rectangle cut in the middle for the pool.

I lined the pool with roll-out icing and then "tiled" the pool surround using squares cut out of rolled-out icing (in different shades of blue)

Then (and this is where it went a bit wrong) I filled the pool with blue jelly and put in people moulded from icing.

My mistake was that I should have added the jelly and people just before the party -I had added them the night before so by the time of the party some of the jelly had seeped through small gaps in the icing and started to dissolve the icing. The people in the jelly pool also started to dissolve (very surreal!).

I must say though, DD and her friends were truly astounded by it

Heres one where they've used sweets to tile the surround

Thinking about it now (hinsight is a wonderful thing isn't it? ) -if you could find a shallow white container, the right dimensions for the pool, you could set that into the cake and fill with blue jelly and Lego people.

The jelly did look very effective as water I must say

oops - hindsight that is

lol norbert jelly's a good idea but ds2 is a strict (nay militant) vegetarian so no gelatine ...

that first one's sort of what I had in mind majeika - I wonder how they did the ladder??

What a lovely idea - & huge respect (& creative cake award) to Norbert.

mimsum -it was veggie jelly I used mainly because its very neutral in colour so the blue food-colouring turned it a proper blue IYSWIM.

You can buy it in sachets from health food-type shops

Snorkle - trouble is I now have a reputation to live up to as that was one of about 3/4 very creative cakes I've done over the years. I'm currently tearing my hair out trying to decide what to do this year

A-ha! I'd forgotten about veggie jelly - will have to keep the sachet to show ds2 it's not got gelatine in it - he's very, very strict

Yeap definately don't add the jelly until right before the cake gets presented to the birthday people.

and make sure you only add a bit of water not the entire pint otherwise it would be a v soggy cake