How to Make a Fish Shaped Cake Part 3: Painting the Cake

I use luster dust and Everclear to paint the silver (amzn.to/1pa8YYv) and white (amzn.to/1i2LW4T) parts of the fish. The blue is Americolor royal blue gel paste (amzn.to/1qXx4oF) thinned with Everclear.
This is my version of the fish shaped cake in Colette's Cakes (amzn.to/1nh5OyW), a cake decorating book by Colette Peters, which has full instructions and the patterns for cutting the tail and fins to make this cake.

[@preciouscontreras8869]

I’ve been looking for a video to help me with a fish cake for Father’s Day for about three years now.. Finally found the perfect video(s) thank you!!!

[@joleenrodriguez1914]

Thanks so much for making this video im making my dads birthday cake and he said he did not want a cake shaped like a circle or square or rectangle and I thought of making him a fish cake this helps a lot

[@cakedarla]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@msblkru06]

You rock for these tutorials! Thank you!

[@cakedarla]

I'm glad to help. Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@lizwilkes9236]

can anyone tell m what decorating book I need to get for the fish shaped

[@cutie6838]

Super cool

[@katztish6851]

Can this work with a pound cake? And do you think homemade fondant will work as well? Also again how did you get the scales? Thanks for the idea !!!

[@cakedarla]

Katz Tish This should work fine with a pound cake, and you'll be able to use homemade fondant. To make the scales, I took a piping tip and used the wide opening to imprint small half circles down the fish body in slightly overlapping rows. Thanks for watching and posting questions!

[@kimnezil]

What can you use instead of alcohol?

[@ryaelliott]

Clear vanilla extract

[@jengreen6021]

when you say everclear, is that a food dye color?

[@cakedarla]

No, it's clear grain alcohol. Vodka would also work.