Do you know a salty sailor, a fanatical fisher, or a marvellous mermaid whose birthday is coming up? Check out these fabulous nautical celebration cakes - from a shark full of fish lollies to extravagant jelly-moulded masterpieces, there's something to satisfy the whole crew!
Don your lifejacket and hoist the sails!This sweet and simple cake is perfect for your favourite yachtie.
These cute maritime cupcakes are perfect for sharing - and they're surprisingly simple! Make life easy by using ice cream cones to create your lighthouses.
This one's for the grown-ups! Pro tip from an old sailor: used spiced rum for added depth of flavour.
This one could also work as fish scales...though that doesn't sound very appetising now that we think of it.
For the Mount Maunganui-based wellness queen, surfer, influencer-type in your life...This one is perfect for #thegram
This one will take a bit of time, which makes it the perfect lockdown project! (The American in our midst suggests substituting digestive biscuits for the graham crackers).
It may not be Shark Week, but we're loving this fearful creation. It's a red velvet shark. With candy fishies in its tummy. Get your jaws around that!
While we're on the subject of our favourite apex preditor, how gorgeously terrifying is this ombre creation?
This one really takes the, er, cake. You've got pillowy-soft sand, an aquamarine jelly sea, and fondant palm trees shading your beach chairs. This cake is almost as good as that trip to Rarotonga you had to cancel because of lockdown...Almost.
