Total Splash: Sweet Mermaid Buttercream Cake + Cupcakes

 


How obsessed was I with:

1. The movie Splash starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah as the giant floppy tailed dolphin-barking mermaid. Um, also John Candy is in it. GOLD. Need to watch this again asap.

2. The original Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid where the sweet beautiful mermaid loves her prince so much she cannot kill him and throws herself into the ocean and disintegrates into a thousand bubbles into the ocean waves (SAD!)

3. The friendly-fied Disney version of The Little Mermaid where the little merm is a bright red haired firecracker mermaid and marries the prince (although there is still a horrible death scene of "crazy old Ursula" the mole-faced octopus scary lady).

4. The movie Mermaids starring Cher and Winona Ryder and a young Christina Ricci. Set in the 1960s with amazing hair and wardrobe and a coming-of-age story that any young lady would glomp onto. Yeah. That's a good one.

MERMAIDS! I still love them! And I will love anyone who requests a cake as pretty and buttercreamy beautiful as this one I made for the adorable Rhys. I even drew a custom cake topper in her liking. As a mermaid of course...

Thank you Genieve for the fun order - and happy birthday Rhys!

Little Girl Cakes!

A mini round-up of some recent cakes made for little girls! Yes, many little girls love those colours of pink and red... I have always loved blue and green... when I was a little girl I played with both Barbie and Transformers/He-Man equally... ! Barbie would take a cruise on Battlecat, He-Man would take a cruise in the Barbie corvette... no big deal!!!

Look At This Stuff... Isn't It Neat? Mermaid Cupcakes

Little Mermaid themed under the sea cupcakes!

My version of the crab dude and the yellow and blue fish buddy
(uh, Sebastian and Flounder, respectively)

This guy! Back and still partying it up, casual times style!
He really needs a pair of sunglasses I think.

Seaweed blowin' in the (sea) wind

What? They have those magician tricks under water too??

That fiery rascal of a defiant teenaged mer-girl, Ariel

Ariel's chic purple shell bikini top! Only the latest fashion will do.

Mer-tail!

Starfish and CrabMan are wishing you an HBD!

I must've seen the 1989 version of The Little Mermaid about 57 times. Come onnnn, don't judge, I was 13 when it came out! Plus my little cousin Katlin adored the movie so whenever we went to visit we would watch it! I recently got re-obsessed with the original 1975 Toei Japanese animation of The Little Mermaid, where the mermaid actually dies and turns to seafoam at the end... sadness!! I even got so crazy as to track down a guy in the States who remastered a European VHS version in digital and burns his own DVDs of the movie and makes his own DVD cover. Yes, I bought a copy from him. I'm crazy like that.

Yes, I still know every word of every song in the 1989 version with that devilishly red haired defiant teenaged mer-girl Ariel. Yes, the 1975 Toei Japanese animation one still makes me cry.

Back to cupcakes... a recent fun Coco Cake order: my mom's cousin Justine ordered Little Mermaid themed cupcakes for her daughter Ana's birthday- they were having a Princess Ariel themed tea party! I hope these cute little "Under The Sea/Little Mermaid" cupcakes were enjoyed with dainty tea cups and cucumber sandwiches!