This Mermaid Cake Will Definitely Make A Splash At Your Next Party

Look at this cake, isn't it neat?

             

By Lyndsey Matthews, Delish

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Move over unicorns. This summer, we're all about mermaid-themed everything to inspire our food. We've already made mermaid ice cream and mermaid lemonade, but in order to throw a real party we needed a cake recipe.

  

Meet the mermaid cake.

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Using the petal frosting technique that's on basically everyone's Pinterest boards by now, we made our cake look like something straight out of Ariel's grotto by tinting our buttercream in shades of purple, teal and blue.

                      

With a little bit of patience, anyone who can put frosting in a piping bag can achieve this cool mermaid-tail effect. All you need to do is pipe circles of frosting vertically down the sides of a plain white cake and use an offset spatula to smear the frosting circles about an inch horizontally across the cake.Then pipe another row of frosting circles slightly overlapping your last row of frosting smears and repeat the process until your entire cake is covered.While it's not exactly like taking a beach vacation, we promise this pipe and smear process is quite soothing once you get into the groove of things.

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