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 !!