I’m also speaking to all of those people in Googleland who have recently been searching for a shark cake. How’s this one for you?

Nothing that fancy, but oh what fun I had making it!

For clarity purposes, I must state that is a Megalodon cake, not a shark cake. See how big the shark is in that water? Go ahead. Let yourself be impressed with my unique ability to place a plastic shark on a cake. I got maaaaaaad cake decorating skillz.

Along with a cake that large, it takes a large amount of icing. Like two and a half bags of confectioner sugar amount of icing.

The good thing about that much icing is that the icing is how you can get high. Legally.

My fun & joy of baking this particular birthday cake started in the grocery store while purchasing the cake mixes.

Yet again, I find myself standing in awe at the massive amount of choices in cake mixes, just like shampoos. That isn’t the only similarity between the two though. I notice that every single box of cake mix has the word “moist” on it.

Every. Last. One.

But there was one box that went a step above moist.

I introduce you to the superhero of cake mixes, the SuperMoist cake mix.

Being the awesome friend that I am, I had to purchase that particular box. I also had to take pictures of the box and then email it to *ahem* a certain friend.

It’s all about desensitization therapy. I am helping my friend. You can lean on me.

Each year at my boy’s birthdays, I swear I’m never making their cakes again. Ever Ever. And if I even think about, someone please stop me!!

No one ever stops me.

Fuckers

But this year was different. You see, I didn’t have to smooth the icing on the cake. Public Enemy #1 to cake decorating is smoothing in the icing. No matter how many times I dip that smoothing utensil in warm water and smooth over and over, picking out tiny, accidental crumbs, the base layer of icing never ever looks like it does in the Wilton magazines. This time though, I didn’t have to worry about it because it was suppose to be the ocean and we all know the ocean is choppy and wavy. Woohoo!

Public enemy #2 of cake making is tinting the icing. I hate it too. Dealing with that paste coloring, digging out not-too-much-but-not-too-little amount on a toothpick only for it to stain your counters and fingers. Getting the perfect shade is so tricky because it darkens as the icing dries, and if you happen to run out you can never tint a second batch to match.

What a drag and not the kind of drag that will get you high.

This year I happen to discover a product that I guarantee will make icing a birthday cake a drag that you will enjoy.

Simply ice the white icing, line your surface with protective paper, and then spray like you’re a juvenile delinquent.

Not that I have any experience spray painting as a juvenile. Heh.

While you are spraying this color mist, breath deeply. Very deeply. Because the fumes from this stuff….

Ohhhhhh yyyeeeaaaaaahhhhh!

By the time you are finished with the spray, you’ll be so very happy and everything will be right in the world. Everything will be so right that the fact this stuff smells exactly like spray paint and you are about to eat it doesn’t phase you in the least. Because the world is full of love!

And that cake will be the best damn tasting cake you’ve ever had.

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