Mattie the Mermaid is 4

Mattie wanted a Mermaid cake for her 4th birthday so I went with a little bit of a "Mermaids Under the Sea" theme. We celebrated a couple of days early because on her actual birthday she has gymnastics and Daddy will be out of town working. She was happy to open her presents and eat cake, no matter the day. We went to the aquarium yesterday and Play on Thursday, so they have had fun this trip to see Daddy. I spent today making her cake between taking care of 3 kids.

  

Mattie picked out a chocolate mix for the cake, and I had to make 3 batches of buttercream between the crumb coat, cover layer, and all the decorations. Plus a total of 10 different colors mixed up.

Here is the cake before adding the decorations. I used 3 different blues and a purple to get this effect for the swirly ocean background. Then just kind of threw them all in the piping bag to do the edge borders.

Then came the Mermaid, made to resemble Mattie of course.

And the Mermaid needed some cute sea creature friends, so I did an octopus, jellyfish, sea stars, fish, and a seahorse. I really tried to keep it pretty simple with quick and easy to pipe creatures!

She had fun blowing out her candle as we sang Happy Birthday:

This is Mattie's plate when she was done eating her "cake". She ate all the icing off and left the cake behind. Next year I should just mix up some buttercream icing in whatever color she wants and give her a bowl of it.

And she ended the night snuggled in her new mermaid blanket and playing on her Fisher Price "tablet"