Gumpaste Coral for Ocean Theme Cake

Gumpaste coral on an ocean theme cake is the absolute best. They are simple and easy to make. Here, I have shown you a few different ways to make some gumpaste coral, seaweed, and fish. These will work great on a wedding cake or a novelty cake.

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I made coral recently for two cakes – one was for this wedding cake, and the other was for my daughter’s birthday cake. She had an ocean-themed cake, so we used gumpaste coral. What better than to make it all in one go? Right?

As promised, here are a few progress pictures to show you how I made the gumpaste coral. I made collages because the number of images was way too many for one post, and I thought it would be less confusing. And made sure to write directions on the pictures themselves … Hopefully that works better.

I’m still new at making tutorials – hopefully, I will learn to take better pictures in the future.

Let’s start with some simple corals

Here, you can see I made some with just yellow and some with a marbled effect.

And here is another – In this, I used bundled, clean, unused toothpicks for the texture.

And here you can see I have shown you two different on one collage.

And here are some more of these pretty simple gumpaste corals, right?

Here, you can see I have used them on this middle tier.

Moving on with more progress pictures – here’s another gumpaste coral. Or perhaps more like a textured rock!!

And, of course, FISH. We have to have some fish in the ocean with our gumpaste coral, right?

Lastly, we have to make some Shells!! Seashells! So here’s one if you don’t have a mold

And here’s me making a few more with the molds.

This is the cake I made for my daughter. Here are a few progress pictures of how I carved it

I used a doll cake pan and two 8″ round cakes for the whole cake. The recipes I used are my Simple Moist Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Chiffon Cake, and Classic Vanilla Pound Cake with I colored. Of course, for frosting, I used my Velvet American Buttercream (it’s really hot and humid here in summer).

I then covered it in The BEST homemade fondant recipe (one of my six different fondant recipes), and airbrushed it in ice blue, which was patched with green, red, and yellow as a base for my dried-up coral.

And here is the Ocean theme wedding cake I made.

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