Recipe: Whale Birthday Cake recipe, pictures, and more information

Here are a lot of whale shaped birthday cakes for you to look at and get ideas from. Good luck!

http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/birthday-cake-ideas-for-kids.html

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WHALE CAKE
Source: http://www.nhws.com/holodeck/recipes.html

2 boxes pound cake mix (16 ounces each)
2 cans ready to spread vanilla frosting (16 ounces each)
Blue liquid or paste food coloring (paste works best)
5 large marshmallows
3 or 4 strands of fusilli pasta (or long thin birthday candles)
2 starlight mint candies (may chose to just icing here, especially if cake is for small children)
2 red M&M candies (also may wish to just use icing here)

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan and one 8 inch square pan. Prepare double batch cake batter as directed on package using both packages of cake mix. Divide batter between the pans. Bake loaf pan 1 hour and 5 minutes, squre pan 50 minutes or until pick inserted in center of cakes comes out clean. Cool in pans on rack 15 minutes before inverting cakes on wire racks to cool completely.

2. Stand loaf cake on one side with top of cake facing you. With serrated knife, cut cake diagonally starting about 3-1/2 inches from top right side.

3. Trim square cake to 7 inches. Cut in half diagonally. Place halves on top of each other, lining up edges. Cut out a broad "V" for the tail as shown in the photo of the cake.

4. Scrape frosting into a bowl. Stir in blue food color, a little at a time, until pale blue.

5. Head: Place small wedge of loaf cake (narrow end will be at front of head) cut side down near one end of serving platter. Cover with frosting. Cut 1 marshmallow in half. Stick marshmallow "teeth" into frosting, starting at narrow end of of cake and ending with half a marshmallow. Frost cut side of other half of loaf cake. Gently place on teeth. Cover cake with frosting. Stick fusilli "sprouts" into head. Glue M&M "pupils" on mints with dot of frosting. Press into place.

6. Tail: Frost both pieces together. Place in position next to head. Cover with frosting.

Makes 18 to 20 servings.

The sailing ships I made out of egg shaped cupcakes. I used a triangle piece of a fruit roll up attached to a small stick pretzel as the sails. I frosted the cupcakes dark chocolate, and piped waves of blue icing around the bottom.