Big Blue Wet Thing

Yesterday I baked a cake. It wasn't just any cake. It was a fishbowl cake. Let me explain. A houseful of girls I know were having boy problems and really needed some cheering up. So I made them a cake. But this one had some significance to it. First, I baked two 8 inch round cakes (actually Hubby did that part). After they were cool I mixed up some frosting. I left part of it white and made part of it blue (my fingers are still blue from the food coloring squirting all over the place). Then I put some frosting between the two cakes, cut the top and bottom of the cakes so they were flat and stood them up so they were rounded on the sides but flat on the top. Then I smeared blue frosting from the bottom to about 2/3rd of the way to the top - all the way around the cake. Next I put write frosting over the rest, except for the flat top I made mostly blue. Voila! A fish bowl! We decorated with nerds at the bottom for rocks and goldfish crackers for the goldfish. I titled it a "there are always more fish in the sea" cake because, you know, if things don't work out with one boy (or girl) they'll probably work out with another. It was quite hilarious taking it over to the house of girls. It was standing upright and it was a little bit wobbly. I sat in the passenger seat holding it while Hubby drove and any time he hit a bump or a bumpy patch of road it would start to wobble and I was afraid I would dump it in my lap! Then the frosting started melting down the sides of the cake and puddling around the bottom. We turned the A/C up full blast to try to keep it cool and melt free but there was still a little puddle of frosting around the bottom of the cake when we got there. Oh well. It sure tasted good!