Fishing Birthday Cakes

If you have an avid sportsman in your family, fishing birthday cakes are easy to make and come in a variety of styles. No matter what your time allotment or skills level, you can easily make a visually intriguing fishing theme cake that the birthday boy or girl will love.

An Easy Fishing on a Lake Cake

I used a square cake for this cake. You could use the same ideas here and make whatever size you'd like. Frost the top blue and wavy to look like a lake.

lake cake

With a star tip or tip 233 make grass by pulling up along edges of cake. I chose to leave a little cake plain on the bottom to look like part of the dirt or ground.

grass along lake

Add a fisherman and boat cake topper and add any details you'd like to finish it off.

fisherman cake

fishing cake

For extra fun, press colorful gummy fish candies to the side of your cake to make them appear to be swimming in the water.

More Fishing Cake Decorating Ideas

Decorate a fish shaped cake. You can carve a 13x9 cake or buy a special cake pan. You can decorate as fancy, real or fun as you'd like.

Photo courtesy of barron

Make chocolate molds shaped like fish. Add to a decorated cake.

Make easy fishing themed cupcakes with blue frosting and use a spoon or your frosting spatula to add texture and ripples to your pond. Highlight the ripples with a piping tip and a darker shade of blue frosting. Add a fish cupcake pick to finish it off.

Specialty Cake Pans

Using a fishing themed specialty cake pan is a great way to create a three dimensional cake without all the cutting and assembly. Several varieties of this type of pan can easily be found at any craft store and online.

We recommend the fun fish-shaped pan from Wilton. These molded cake pans can help you save time in shaping your own cake and lets you focus on the decorating. For pans with a lot of detail, lightly frost in the color of your choice and use piping tips and frosting to add details.

Fish Themed Cake Patterns

To create simple fishing birthday cakes try using a fish-themed cake pattern. To use, simply find a pattern or image that you like, cut it out and place on your unfrosted cake. Frost the area around the image on the cake carefully so as not to displace your pattern. Once you have frosted the rest of the cake, remove the paper pattern and use colored frosting, piping tips and an assortment of decorating techniques to recreate your image. Feel free to use one of the many cake decorating patterns located on our site or find one you like online through a simple search.

No matter what type of fishing birthday cakes you decide to make, each has room for you to add your own spark, pizazz and creativity. Use one of our ideas or branch out and create your own one-of-a-kind masterpiece that will have your fisherman reeling in the smiles.

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