This easy to make Mini Sailboat Shaped Cakes are perfect for a nautical or beach wedding reception. If you are looking for a fun new way to share your wedding cake with your guest, then you have to try making these Mini Sailboat Shaped Cakes. Your wedding guests can each have their own whole cake served to them on individual plates.
This is an elegant and new twist on the traditional nautical or beach wedding cake ideas.
I am always looking for fun and new nautical wedding cake ideas. There are so many possibilities.
You can use this edible Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes for a great gift for someone special as well. They would be well suited for a romantic dinner for two, or even a get well soon treat.
To Make Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes You will need:
1 of your favorite boxed white cake mixes
1 – 2 Tub of Vanilla icing
White Tube Writing Icing (2 to 3 tubes)
1 Sailboat shaped cookie cutter (about 4 inches wide)
Bake your favorite cake mix as usual. You need to bake it in a 13″ X 9″ baking pan. You can bake two cakes (or more for a large wedding) and cut them out exactly the same to make a large number of Mini Sailboat Shaped Nautical Wedding Cakes.
Once the cake has cooled flip it out of the baking pans onto a large platter, carving board, or whatever you have.
Now, stick the cake in the freezer for about 20 to 30 minutes. You want to slightly freeze is, but not freeze it completely. This will help you cut it into the shape of the Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes.
Now, use a Sailboat cookie cutter to cut out the Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes on the sheet cake. Simply press the cookie cutter in like you would cookie dough. Pop the Sailboat out and lay it on a flat surface.
You should find this sheet cake cuts easily into the shape of these Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes since it is chilled and slightly frozen. This will make the cake much more easy to cut and get crisp clean edges of the small Sailboat.
Now, you really should go ahead and place these simple Mini Sailboat Shaped Beach Wedding Cakes on a board or serving platter before you decorate it. You will not be able to move it once you decorate it or you will ruin it.
Now, take your 1 tub of the icing. You can use any colors that you want to match your wedding. To make this Sailboat elegant I recommend leaving them in white and outline in white piping icing.
You may need both tubs (or more) to adequacy cover a large number Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes.
Coat the entire Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes with a thick coat of icing. Use your spatula or butter knife to make the icing really smooth and flat. The more smooth the better. In fact if you like working with fondant icing, that would be the best, but you can use regular canned icing for this. Reserve some icing aside for touch ups later.
Tip: You may find it easier to apply a thin coat of icing to the entire Mini Sailboat Shaped Wedding Cakes. Then place the wedding cakes in the refrigerator for about an hour.
Once this thin layer has chilled apply another thicker coat of white vanilla icing. This first coat is called the crumb coat for obvious reasons. This is a great way that the wedding cake professionals use to get a clean smooth surface of icing on their beach wedding cakes.
Now for the real fun. You get to decorate your Mini Sailboat Shaped Nautical Wedding Cakes. Apply a second smooth coat of your butter cream or vanilla icing.
To garnish take your tube of matching white icing and outline your daisy. You can first circle around the center circle and then outline each edge.
So, if you want you can make this Sailboat cake in any color, to make it look elegant be sure to pipe on the outlines in the same color though!
