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Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Hawaiian Cake." This cake will make a big splash at your next luau or tropical-themed party.

Ingredients

• 1 baked 13- by 9- by 2-inch cake
• 2 1/2 cups blue frosting
• 1/4 cup white frosting
• 1-cup graham cracker crumbs
• Candy rocks
• Birthday candles
• Plastic Hawaiian dancers
• Candy flower sprinkles
• Plastic palm trees
• Fruit Stripe gum (surfboards)
• Plastic figures
• LifeSavers (inner tubes)
• Sour tape, cut into 1-inch lengths (beach blankets)
• Paper parasols
• Plastic dolphin or gummy fish

Instructions

Lightly coat the entire cake with a thin layer of blue frosting. Swirl extra blue frosting on two-thirds of the cake to create the ocean with waves and a curvy shoreline. Add whitecaps by squirting white frosting through a pastry bag.

To make the sandy beach, sprinkle graham cracker crumbs on the remaining third of the cake (the crumbs will stick to the thin layer of frosting). Next, let your kids help you turn the cake into a bustling beach. Arrange a circle of candy rocks around a candle bonfire. Add Hawaiian dancers, a candy flower path, plastic palm trees, Fruit Stripe gum surfboards, plastic swimmers, LifeSavers tubes, sour tape beach blankets, and paper parasols. Don't forget to stock the ocean with edible and decorative sea creatures.

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Fish Cake

Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Fish Cake." To make a big splash, use this colorful beach cakes with kids birthday party ideas relating to mermaids, under sea adventures, luaus, beach, or fishing themes.

Ingredients

• 1 baked 13- by 9- by 2-inch cake
• 6 cups blue frosting
• 2 cups orange-yellow frosting
• Necco wafers
• 1 mint patty

Instructions

Frost the cake blue, then frost the tail and fins orange. Place the Necco wafers on as scales. Add the mint as an eye and the gummy fish for the mouth.

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Mermaid Cake

Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Mermaid Cake." Use beach cakes with kids birthday party ideas relating to mermaids, under sea adventures, or fishing themes.

Ingredients

• 1 baked 8-inch round cake
• 1 baked 13- x 9- x 2-inch cake
• 12 baked cupcakes
• 8 cups frosting (white, blue, and yellow)
• Necco wafers (pink, green, and purple)
• 2 green Necco wafers and 2 blue M&M's for eyes
• Shoestring licorice eyelashes
• Fruit by the foot mouth
• Colored sugar

Instructions

Frost the mermaid's tail blue and cover it with Necco wafers. Frost the head and body white and the bikini top blue.

Add the candy eyes and mouth. Frost the cupcake curls yellow, then sprinkle on colored sugar for marine sheen.

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Octopus Cake

Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Octopus Cake." Use beach cakes with kids birthday party ideas relating to mermaids, under sea adventures, or fishing themes.

Ingredients

• Round ball cake pan
• Twinkies
• Gummy Savers
• Brown sugar or cookie crumbs
• Colored Saran Wrap

Instructions

Use a round ball cake and set it on colored Saran Wrap.

Position the Twinkies in rows to act as arms.

Gummy savers candy is put on the arms to act as the octopus' suction cups.

Sprinkle brown sugar or cookie crumbs around the cake to act as sand.

Add gummy dolphins, sharks, octopus, etc. in the sand.

The shells were made with frosting.

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Pail of Sand Cake

Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Pail of Sand Cake." Use beach cakes with kids birthday party ideas relating to mermaids, under sea adventures, or beach party themes.

Ingredients

• 1 baked 8-inch round cake
• 1 8- to 9-cup capacity new plastic sand pail
• 24 oz. unsweetened applesauce (or 1 3-oz. package pudding, prepared)
• 1 cup crushed graham crackers or cookies
• Shell candies
• 1 plastic shovel

Instructions

Cut the cake into 1-inch slices. Fit the slices into the pail, alternating layers of cake with applesauce or pudding, ending with applesauce.

Sprinkle on the crushed cookie sand and top with shell candies. Now dig in with the plastic shovel.

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Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Snorkeler Cake." Adapt this little guy to look like your little guy and it is sure to go over swimmingly. Use beach cakes with kids birthday party ideas relating to under sea adventures or beach party themes.

Ingredients

• 2 baked 9-inch round cakes
• 2 to 3 cups chocolate icing
• Hershey's Kisses
• 2 green LifeSavers Gummies
• 2 blue M&M's
• 1 piece red shoestring licorice
• 1 orange gumdrop
• New snorkel and diving mask, washed with soap and water

Instructions

Layer and frost the cakes.

Unwrap the Kisses and place them around the top for hair.

Add the LifeSavers and M&M's for eyes, a licorice mouth, and a gumdrop nose.

Remove or unfasten the strap on the diving mask, then place it over the face and lay the snorkel next to the cake.

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Sunglasses Cake

Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Sunglasses Cake." All these glasses need is a little diva-tude. Jazz them up and they will be the hit of the party. Use beach cakes with kids or teens birthday parties relating to pool or beach parties.

Ingredients

• 9-inch round cake baked from your favorite recipe
• 1/2 cup chocolate frosting
• 1 1/2 cups white frosting
• Pink food coloring or icing color (we used Wilton brand)
• Gumdrops (we used Sunkist Fruit Gems)
• Pink sugar sprinkles

Instructions

Tint the white frosting pink (for our shade, you'll need about 50 drops of food coloring or 1/8 teaspoon of icing color), then finish frosting the cake. Decorate the pink frames with the sprinkles. Cut the gumdrops in half crosswise, then create star shapes with mini cookie cutters (we used 1/2-inch and 1-inch sizes). Serves 10.

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Here's the recipe for Family Fun's "Under The Sea Cake." This Under The Sea Cake will make a big splash at your next party. If you're considering beach cakes, this one is perfect for parties with a mermaid or under the sea theme.

Ingredients

• 1 baked 13" x 9" x 2" cake
• 2 to 3 cups blue icing
• Green apple Sour Belts
• Blue and/or green fruit leather
• Candy rocks
• Candy seashells
• Gummy sea creatures, such as fish, sharks, and octopuses
• Mini Swedish fish
• Sour tropical fish

Instructions

Frost the cake with the icing.

To create plants, roller twist various lengths of sour belts and fruit leather before placing them on the cake.

Place candy rocks and seashells along the bottom.

finish off your underwater scene by arranging schools of gummy fish, sharks, and other deep-sea dwellers.


Beach cakes are not only perfect for a beach party, but they also compliment under-the-sea parties, luaus, fishing themes, pool-related get togethers, and mermaid parties.




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