Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
I got so many requests from you guys to make something Finding Nemo Themed,
and, the new movie Finding Dory is coming out, and I realized, we still haven’t
made something Finding Nemo! So we are going to fix that today! We are
gonna be making a very yummy cake, and I’m super excited!
I love all of the characters in that film, especially Dory, I feel like
spiritually connected, we don’t have the best memories, but we’re positive,
and we’re go-getters! So today, we’re gonna be making a Finding Nemo cake
with a bunch of little characters, including Dory.
Let’s get started!
The cake that we’re gonna be making today is gonna be a 2-tiered cake. We’re gonna be
doing a larger cake on the bottom, a smaller cake on the top, and the
recipe is going to be a blue velvet cake! So it will look like under the sea!
The things you will need, will be: 6 Cups of all purpose flour, 3 cups of sugar,
2 cups of buttermilk, 3 cups of oil, 3 teaspoons of dark cocoa powder,
2 teaspoons of white vinegar, 2-1/2 teaspoons of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of
salt, 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons of blue food coloring, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla
extract. Now let’s put it all together!
The first thing that we’re gonna do is whisk together our dry ingredients
in this bowl. Our flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salty-salty!
Just whisk together until they’re well combined.
Now we’re gonna mix together our wet ingredients, I’m gonna start with my eggs,
I like to do the eggs first, so that it’s easier to break the yolk!
Gonna add your oil, buttermilk, vinegar, and vanilla!
Time to whisk, just be careful not to splash it all over the place!
We’ve got our wet ingredients and our dry ingredients, now we are going to combine
them, I’m going to be adding the wet into the dry very slowly, and mixing very
slowly because this bowl is full!
Last step to making our batter we are going to add our blue food coloring, you
can add however much you’d like to achieve the color blue that you want.
But the amount that I’m adding is going to make a really cool aquamarine color!
Over here we’ve got our pans, we have 2 of them, 1 is a 10 inch pan,
the other 1 is a 6 inch pan and they are both 2 inches deep.
I’ve got both of them greased and lined with a piece of parchment paper
at the bottom, so that your cake won’t stick.
Now we’re gonna scoop the batter into the pans.
I have a big scoop, I’m not gonna pick it up and pour it because this is
a very dense cake, and it’s really heavy, I don’t trust myself, I will
probably drop it!
We’ve got our batter in our pans and now it is time to bake. We are gonna
slow bake both of these because it is a very thick, dense recipe.
You’re gonna heat your oven to 325 degrees and bake the smaller 1 for about
an hour and the larger 1 about an hour and 15 minutes.
It’s OK if they bake at the same time, you just take the smaller 1 out first.
While our cakes are baking, we are gonna make our decorations, this is the
perfect time to make decorations because these cakes need to slow bake.
So what I have here are some fondant and some simple tools, the fondant
colors that I have are: Blue, green, orange, red, purple, yellow, pink,
white and black! And then for tools I have a straw, a skewer, a star cookie
cutter, a little tip, some water, a little fondant cutter, it kind of looks like
a mini pizza cutter, a little rolling pin and a sharp cutting knife.
I’ve laid down a piece of wax paper so that the fondant won’t stick.
And I’ve left each fondant wrapped up in a little bit of plastic wrap so that they
won’t dry out while we’re working with them.
The first character that I’m gonna make is Nemo, we’re gonna take orange,
black and white fondant.
And now, I’m gonna start molding Nemo’s body. Working with fondant is very
similar to sculpting, so if you like sculpting you might really love working
with fondant as well!
I’m just gonna start shaping Nemo’s face, I’m gonna make is little fin
on top, just pinching the top. And a little fin in the back, we need a little fin!
Gonna make his little white stripes. Taking our white fondant, I’m gonna roll
it out thin. I’m gonna cut 3 strips, first strip is gonna go right in front of
his fin. Then we’re gonna place 1 more strip in the middle of the fin and
then 1 at the back. I’ve got the white fondant on, now I’m gonna make a
little smile, roll out the black fondant very thin, we need very thin strips.
To go on the top and the bottom of every white stripe.
Also made some fins, remember, Nemo’s little fin, is on the right and his big
fin is on the right….Left!
Hah-hah-hah-hah!
I’m just gonna stick him onto the side!
I’m gonna make another character, Peach, this is the little starfish!
He’s so cute!
Just gonna lightly roll it out, I want it to be pretty thick.
Just big enough for our star cookie cutter! Just gonna use my finger, go all
the way around. Taking a skewer, poking little holes for design, making a texture.
Then using the black and red fondant we’re gonna make 2 little eyeballs and a smile!
I’m gonna teach you how to make some seaweed, it is super easy!
We have green fondant, we rolled it out thin, and now you’re gonna take a little
fondant cutter, or you can use a sharp cutting knife, I’m gonna cut a rectangle,
then cut long triangles, I’m gonna go up, down, up, down, up, down so I’ll
get a bunch of them!
Now you’re gonna take a straw and wrap your triangles around them.
And let them sit to harden.
An easy way to make coral, using fondant, is to roll it flat, and then, cut out
a bunch of holes. If you don’t have a cookie cutter that is super small,
I just like to use this, little tip. You just want to make it look like
swiss cheese! I’m gonna keep making a bunch of different decorations using the
fondant, all of the different colors. You can make as many or as little as
you’d like.
Once your cakes have baked and had plenty of time to cool, I leveled them
using a cake leveler and cut them into 3 sections.
And you’re gonna take the big cake, and we’re just gonna frost the top.
Because we have so many layers I’m gonna do a very thin coat of icing.
Now we’re gonna add the next layer, then we frost again, add the last layer
and frost again! Just finished icing our cake, we gave it a crumb coat, because
we are going to be covering our cake with fondant. And now I’m gonna do the
exact same thing to our little cake! We’re gonna assemble and frost,
give it a crumb coat!
Got a big ball of marshmallow fondant that I’ve colored to be aqua, you can
make it any shade of blue that you'd like but I thought this color was
pretty cool! I love this it was so bright.
I’m just gonna place it down here on top of the work surface, and I’ve covered
the whole work surface with powdered sugar, and look at this!
We’ve got a big roller! A big fondant roller! This thing is like 1/2 my size!
We’re gonna roll out our fondant, you want it to be between 1/4 and 1/2 an inch thick.
We rolled it out, now I’m just using my hands to dust off any excess powdered
sugar. So I’m gonna take my fondant, we’re gonna roll it back, we’re gonna
cover our little cake first. I’m gonna pick it up, place it right on top.
And then I’m gonna slowly stretch the sides, slowly, slowly!
Now we’re gonna gently press down, make sure that the fondant is sticking to
the frosting, that’s what we want!
You’re gonna press down on the top and all of the sides.
Take a sharp cutting knife, now we’re gonna cut off the excess fondant.
We’re just gonna cut all the way around the base. Peel off the excess fondant,
then I’m gonna make 1 more cut, do a little bit of fine-tuning at the bottom.
This is what the cake should look like, and now we’re gonna do it to our
larger cake. Cakes are covered in fondant and I’ve transferred our large cake
to a cake stand, now we’re gonna add 4 straws in the center of the cake, for
some structural support, before we stack them.
So I’m gonna take a little straw, and I’m gonna place him into the middle of
the cake, just eyeballing it, doesn’t have to be perfect.
Then I’m gonna pick 1 up at a time and cut ‘em, place him back in.
Once our structure is in place we can place the smaller cake right on top.
Our cake is assembled, I’ve laid out all of our decorations and now it is time
for my favorite part, it is time to decorate!
I’m gonna be using a little bit of royal icing that I dyed to be the same color
as the cake to attach all of the pieces. Also, another fun decoration is I took
graham crackers, popped ‘em in a blender, ground ‘em up, and I’m gonna be
sprinkling them on the layers of the cake to look like sand!
You can just have fun with it, decorate it however you want!
Ta-da!
Here is the Finding Nemo Cake that we made today!
A big thank you to you guys for suggesting something Finding Nemo, we
finally made a treat!
Up here we’ve got Nemo, on the side we’ve got Dory, and then down here,
one of my favorite characters, I had to put peach there!
So cute!
I’ll be posting lots of pictures of this cake on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram
and Facebook! And if you guys make this cake or any other Finding Nemo themed
treat, please take a picture and send it to me, I love seeing your baking
creations, I get a big kick out of it, it makes my day!
And, if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!
Or, if you were Dory and you wanted to say goodbye in whale it would be like
Booooooooooooooyyyyyyyhhhhhhhh-booooooooooooooyyyyyyyhhhhhhhh!