With the wonderful pool season about to be upon us again, I thought it a good time to share this cute pool cake! This is just the cake to celebrate pool time fun or a summer BBQ. And is it not glorious we get to say things like that again?!
Say Hello Summer with a Pool Cake!
This week marks the official start to summer (so I suggest today’s weather take a look at the date on the calendar and behave accordingly!). I for one am ready to welcome all things summer … bring on the lazy days spent pool side and beachside – oh how we have missed you!
So this pool cake is just the thing to get every one in a sunny mood for summer fun.
I began with was a base of chocolate cake, for no other reason that I wanted chocolate cake and since I was one putting in the time, chocolate cake it was!
Pool Cake – Candy For The Win
It’s the fun colourful details that make the cake, but really there is not a lot skill involved, because most of it is getting creative with candy. Win win.
Begin with whatever cake gets your interest, I used my fave chocolate cake recipe, minus the coffee, from here, but any flavour or even a mix would work.
Directions
Frosting
Step 1:
Bake up the cake of your choice and allow to cool completely.
Step 2:
Mix up buttercream frosting and tint blue.
Step 3:
Start with the first cooled cake layer on a 10″ cake board on a cake decorating surface. I smothered mine with chocolate frosting, because you know – chocolate, but the the regular (blue) vanilla frosting that will cover the outside of the cake would work well too.
Step 4:
Cover the frosted bottom layer with the top layer of cake.
Step 5:
Frost the cake completely with blue frosting.
Step 6:
Pipe a swimming pool dam around the cake. This can be accomplished with the tip cut off of a disposable piping bag or a Wilton 12 tip.
Gel
Step 7:
Mix up a 1/3 of a cup Wilton Clear Piping Gel and tint blue to resemble water. The clear gel absorbs the colours much more intensely than frosting, so start with a little.
Step 8:
Carefully spread the gel, a back of a spoon works well, to the edges of the ‘pool.’
Candy
Step 9:
To start working on the details, I used Life Savers Gummies (much easier to manipulate than the hard candy originals), Teddy Graham Teddy bears and Pull ‘n’ Peel Twizzlers.
Step 10:
Peel apart and cut twizzlers to create loungers and pool mattresses.
Step 11:
Either cut or use broken Teddy Grahams to create swimmers. Prop each up in the gel ‘water.’ Peel a single strand of twizzler and wrap the strand around a teddy for a pool floatie and stretch a gummy lifesaver around a trimmed teddy bear for an inner tube, then place carefully in gel water.
Step 12:
Place extra Life saver Gummies evenly around the perimeter of the pool.
Step 13:
Add a pool side lounger and (paper drink) umbrella.
And you are all done, and ready to bask in the glory of your pool cake!!
Fun in the sun – poolside BBQ:
Need more summer inspiration?! How about in the form of Ice Cream Cone Sugar Cookies or Flamingo Cupcakes !!
That’s a really cool looking cake — and I hear summer’s on the way again.
It was fun to make and see the kids faces!
I love this. So cute with the teddy bears!
Thank you!
Awesome Laura!
Thanks Tina!!
oh this looks like lots of fun!
Yeah it was!
Going right into Miss B’s ” things to do this summer” file!
Oh I can’t wait to see – bet it will be great!!
Kids will love this one!
Thanks!