- Hey guys, so today we
are making one of the most
requested cakes on this channel
by my cousin who is little
and he wants me to make it
so today we're making it.
We're making a baby shark.
Baby shark. (humming)
I think it's a show or a video game.
I don't know, I'm not hip with it,
but he loves it so much.
So that's why we're doing it.
I think this baby shark
looks cute and scary
and fluffy 'cause I modeled
this after the baby shark plush.
So let's get started.
My name's Barbara Walters
and you're watching 20/20.
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Now to create this cake, I
started with a funfetti cake
because the colors,
that's why, and I baked it
in a five by 12 inch cake pan.
Is that five by 12 inch?
I don't know, let's make sure.
11 by seven.
11 by seven cake pan.
I bought this at the 99 cent
store and it's really thin
so you have to layer three pans
so that your cake doesn't burn.
Now I placed my baby shark template on top
and I just cut out the baby shark shape.
It's very simple.
It looks just like a teardrop.
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Now to create the baby shark's head,
I am using a half dome cake pan.
It's six inches.
I just placed it on top and
then I used a pairing knife
to carve out and round
out the baby shark shape.
Now I wanna make sure that the dome cake
matches the rest of it.
Then I started to carve
away the baby shark's tail.
This is a flat cake,
but I didn't want it
to be completely flat.
I still wanted the rounded shape
of all the baby shark features.
Now I took the first
two layers of cake off
and I actually screwed up
a little bit on this side.
You see how it's crumbling?
But that's okay 'cause I'm gonna fix that
with some extra cake.
Place it on the side, look at that.
And cut away the extra, voila.
Brand new cake.
Now I make a whole bunch
of animals on this show.
They're very cute, most of them.
Some of them are creepy,
but a lot of them are cute.
If you wanna see more
of my animal creations,
there are links at the end of the video.
I'm gonna add buttercream in
between each layer of cake
and I am actually using a
lemon meringue buttercream.
Can you believe it, no you don't.
I'm too lazy.
You guys know it's vanilla.
Maybe it's not even vanilla.
Maybe it's just sweet cream
'cause I didn't put any flavoring.
It's also a very good possibility.
Added buttercream into
the middle of my cake
and then I added the top layer.
I'm gonna add some more
buttercream in between
the top layer and the
dome cake just so that
it's sticky.
Then I gave my entire cake a crumb coat.
This shape is really easy to create
and I think that if you
alter it just a little bit,
especially with like the nose features,
you can totally get a dolphin out of this
or maybe like that StarKist
tuna guy, you know,
from the canned tuna commercials?
You could probably create him today.
Now after I gave my cake a crumb coat,
I placed it into the fridge to set
and I watched some Netflix.
I was watching this show called
Tidy Up with Marie Kondo,
is that how you say it?
That show actually changed
my entire wardrobe.
I have a lot of clothes.
Well I used to have a lot
of clothes and I realized
that I don't need any of
them so I simplified a lot.
I gave away a lot, sent a
lot back to the homeland.
I didn't have any sort of
attachment to most of them
and I realized that
they were just clothes,
so why not just simplify your look
and I went with classic
and simple and I love it.
This is like my everyday look.
I have so many of these white
shirts from Target and Walmart
and then I bought five of
these jean jackets from Calvin Klein.
I like Calvin Klein jean jackets
so I bought the same one so
that it's just everyday bro.
This year I'm gonna live my
life by the Michael Scott rule
which is to mwah, kiss.
K-I-S-S, keep it simple, stupid
and that's what I'm doing.
So you're gonna see
this in every video now.
And also if you see me on the street,
I'm gonna be wearing the same thing.
After I took my cake out of the fridge,
I covered the entire cake with
the baby shark blue fondant.
It's kind of like a cobalt blue.
It's like a brilliant blue.
You could even go like deep river,
but I think brilliant looks better.
So I say it's brilliant
blue or like a cobalt.
Just covered my entire cake
and I didn't want the bottom to be flat
so I'm just tucking it under
with some fondant tools.
Yas, look at that.
I like the way that looks
when you tuck it under.
And just rip away the extra
and just tuck some more fondant underneath
to get a more clean look.
Now I'm gonna separate
the head from the body
using some fondant tools.
Then I'm going to add a
triangle of like fondant.
It's gotta be straight.
It kind of covers half of the face
and I'm actually gonna
cut away the extra fondant
right where the body meets
the bottom of the head.
So we got the perfect head shape.
Now I'm gonna add another
triangle of fondant
to get the body of the
shark and then using
some more brilliant
blue fondant or cobalt,
if you wanna be simple.
Don't be simple, you guys, okay?
Don't be basic.
I'm gonna give my shark its fins.
I pulled one fin up so it
looks like it's waving.
I love it when little animals wave.
I think it's so cute.
Big animals, also, like a grizzly bear
that's like waving at people at the zoo?
Although he's probably like really sad
'cause he's not free to live in the wild.
We took that away from him
so that we can, oh my god.
Yeah if I just go off on tangents,
I just get really sad.
Now adding some white circles of fondant
to create his eyes and
they're not completely round.
They're little oval, kind of.
I stretched it out a little bit
to get the perfect shape.
Then some black circles of
fondant to create the pupils
and two small circles to
create some catch lights.
Now I'm using black fondant
to create his nostrils
and then I added this huge
baby sharp like grin, smile
showing all his teeth and holla,
my baby shark cake was complete.
Yo this looks so like childish doesn't it?
The colors are so bright and vibrant.
The expression on his face
is so like happy, excited
and also he wants to kill
you, but also he's a baby.
So he doesn't want to kill you yet.
Now I'm curious how many of you watched
the baby shark show or played the game?
I don't know.
Do you love it as much as my cousin does
because he was giving it glowing reviews.
But also I was zoned out.
That's why I don't know
if he was talking about
a video game or a television show.
Now there are a lot of
different colored baby sharks
and I was gonna create them in cake form,
but then I realized I have Photoshop.
So here's the pink one and yellow one
and the green one and
also the grandma one.
Is that a grandma?
I think so.
Aw, they're like a whole family.
Now I hope you guys enjoyed this.
Let me know in the comments
what other cakes you'd like to see me make
and have you seen the Tidy
Up with Marie Kondo, right?
If you have, let's talk
about it because I'm curious
about how many people
it actually affected.
It really changed how I fold my clothes,
how I wear my clothes.
I got rid of a whole
bunch of stuff in my room
because of that show.
I hope you guys enjoyed this.
I love you.
I will see you very soon.
Peace!
