Sculpting & Decorating a Giant Octopus Cake!

There are few things we love making at the bakery more than sculpted animal cakes. This giant version, of a tiny blue ringed octopus is the perfect mix of cute and intimidating! He might not be Hank the Octopus from Finding Dory, but to us he's still just as lovable and cuddly as an octopus cake can be!
Fun octopus fact for the kids out there: they have 8 legs/tentacles. If you follow this as a cake decorating tutorial be sure to get that right... unlike our first attempt. And while the real blue ringed octopus species might be incredibly poisonous, this cake is as tasty as they come with our moist yellow cake and orange creamsicle buttercream. The marshmallow fondant tentacles and suckers look absolutely amazing, and give this sculpted cake a ton of personality and movement.
This has quickly become one of our favorite sculpted animal cakes, and we really hope you enjoy seeing how we made this amazing cake!
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Video Production & Opening by Rebecca Lieberwirth (@beccaliebe on Vimeo)
Opening Music by Sarah Matsushima (sarahbernadettemusic.com)
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[@OakleafCakesBakeShop]

Thanks for watching! Please let us know if you have any questions about how we made this cake!

[@travisfinney1682]

My Girlfriend love's this type of octopus, I was wondering if you could give me step by step instructions I want to make it for her birthday.

[@juliesigmund3836]

Wow! That's amazing!

[@jaclynwilson2657]

Idea: a nine sided shape is called a nonagon so maybe it would be a nonapus; lol and great video

[@OakleafCakesBakeShop]

Oooh! I like that!

[@mandit5555]

Love this. My son wants a Kraken for his bday n I’m trying to find inspiration. Amazing work 🦑

[@believeinshadows139]

Where the hell are your subscribers!? This is incredible!

[@nia9285]

His name should be Bary

[@OakleafCakesBakeShop]

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[@lennie4778]

This is incredible! I’m going to attempt to make a smaller version for my friends birthday so thanks for the inspiration!

[@kassandramcmullen5763]

Thanks so much for this, I've never done a sculpted cake before, or used fondant. But this video gave me the confidence to go for it, and my giant pacific Octopus cake was the talk of the party. I'm sure if I do another it won't take me 9 hours 😅.

[@najgauner]

wow this cake depicting a poisonous octopus species just needs the cyan bitter almond essence top ranking axis politicians took after ww2 which is btw related to prussian blue... to make it realistic ( if you know what im sayin).... Nice artwork!

[@PapaJoeWalsh]

I love your cake sculptures. Thanks for posting. Very relaxed approach to the videos, which is much better than some manic cake-performers on KZbin! It would be good to see the reaction of some of your clients if that was possible. They must be bowled over!

[@jillhager3282]

Could have made one of the tentacles reach up to look like he was trying to open the cake box. 🤓😂 Great work!

[@everleighthejeanious5240]

All I can say is wow! 1. how much? 2. any directions or instructions on your website?

[@Venomousfox]

I love the blue ring octopus it’s an amazing creature I’m a bit sad it’s poisonous

[@lindabeisner8692]

Awesome job on a very realistic looking octopus!❤

[@helenscaketasticcreations4693]

this cake is awesome!!! ive only ever made an octopus cake topper before and i remember the numerous suckers i had to sick on that but boy it was fun to make, thank you for sharing xxx

[@shirleybuckmaster22]

Wow! Stumbled onto your channel and site. This cake is incredible!!!! Thank you for sharing.

[@authorRobinneWeiss]

Thanks for uploading this video! It was exactly the inspiration I needed when my daughter asked for an octopus cake for her birthday.

[@meganohare1567]

Are those 2" layers?

[@OakleafCakesBakeShop]

They are usually closer to 1.5"

[@uharuggerm4261]

Ah gotcha! Thanks! Looks great!