All-Purpose Flour – This recipe turns out best with all-purpose flour. However, you can swap in a good gluten free flour blend ( like this ) if needed. Just be sure to stir the batter longer than normal to help give the cake proper structure, and let the batter sit for about 20 minutes before baking it if you opt to make a gluten free version. Make sure the cake is in the middle of the pan, with at least 1/2 a cm of a 1/4 of an inch all the way around if you want the entire sides of the cake to be jelly. I’ll show you the alternative next. You can find jellyfish in every ocean around the world. This is because they follow the current and can thrive in cold Arctic waters and warm tropical waters. Then press the section that you carved off the cake onto the fresh buttercream and push gently to secure it. You can carve it to make a smooth join onto the existing cake but you don’t have to because you’ll be covering it with frosting, so you can use that to fill in any gaps.

Chill your cake layers in the freezer for about 20 minutes before trimming them and assemblingthe cake. It makes it the process so much easier! Put the fish in the fridge for about 30 minutes to set and then flip them out of the mold and admire how pretty they look! The jelly will give them a shimmery, wet effect later. If some snap as you take them out of the mold, don’t throw them away, you can easily attach a broken tail or fin when you put the fish on the cake. Regardless of species, they tend to be carnivorous–meaning they feed on other animals. However, jellyfish will occasionally consume plant matter as well.Cover the cake with a thin layer of frosting. This is called a crumb coat because if any crumbs come off the cake and get into the frosting, they’ll be trapped in this layer of frosting so when you spread more frosting on later, the crumbs won’t get into that layer. Put the cake in the fridge for about 30 minutes to set this crumb coat and now I’ll show you one of the ways to make fishto swim in the jelly part of this cake.

Add in 2 Tbsp of vegetable oil, 2 tsp of vanilla extract, and a squirt of yellow food coloring. Mix at a low speed until fully incorporated. The yellow food coloring combined with the bit of cocoa powder gives these cake layers a perfect sandy color! Some humans even catch jellyfish and serve them in a variety of dishes. Overall, jellyfish play an essential role in the ocean’s ecosystem. First place goes to the lion’s mane jellyfish! These creatures can grow up to 37 metres long with bells that are up to 3 metres wide! They can also have up to 1200 tentacles! Eek! These giants live in the freezing waters of the Arctic and North Pacific oceans. Make your cake layers in advance and freeze them . It breaks the process up and makes it more approachable. Jellyfish use their tentacles to sting their prey before they gobble it up. Their mouths are located in the centre of their bodies.While some jellyfish are safe to eat there are others that you must avoid at all costs! Some jellyfish can be extremely poisonous and dangerous for humans to be near. The most deadly jellyfish is the box jellyfish. Here are some box jellyfish facts that will amaze you: Did you know that some jellyfish have teeth? The beriod comb jellyfish has hundreds of tiny ‘teeth’ that are made from little hairs. However, these are more than enough to help these jellyfish eat their food! Jellyfish can reproduce sexually by producing sperm and egg cells into the water. They can reproduce asexually by splitting into two or cloning.

Use a paintbrush to brush the coloured chocolate into the fish mold, using more than one colour within the same fish to make it look a bit more interesting and realistic. I’m using the purple chocolate that seized and since the fish is going to be within jelly on the cake, if there’s any texture or graininess in the chocolate you won’t be able to see it. Bang your cake pans on the counter before putting it in the oven. This brings any big air bubbles that are trapped in the batter to the surface. Mix the frosting on the lowest speed with a paddle attachment once it’s made to push out any excess air. If the frosting on the cake went all the way up to the acetate at the bottom of the cake, that frosting will be exposed when you peel off the acetate and the jelly ocean will start higher up on the cake. If any jelly seeped below when you want the ocean to start you can carefully peel off those thin patches of jelly. Next, cover the cake in a layer of frosting. Make sure you fully cover the cake layers, especially in the area where the gelatin ocean will be added. Otherwise, the gelatin mixture can seep into the cake layers before it sets.

Ocean Jelly sweets are loved by all!

Jellies have the simplest-known nervous system among multicellular animals. Nerves in the jelly’s external layer form a nerve net. The nerves generate pulses that contract the jelly’s bell, allowing it to swim. The nerves also detect changes in water chemistry and can sense touch. Jellies in the class Cubozoa even have complex eyes and can respond by swimming toward or away from the light and dark they see. The jelly’s circulation system is made up of canals filled with fluid that transports food and distributes nutrients. Diet In turn, jellyfish are a significant part of other sea creatures’ diets. Sunfish and turtles, for instance, often rely on jellyfish as a food source. Box jellyfish get their name from their shape. They are shaped like a cube and can measure up to 20cm on each of their 4 sides. To feed on plankton, a jellyfish simply needs to float near the surface of the ocean; this is where most planktons live, as they require plenty of sunlight to survive.

The further in from the edges fo the cake, the more blurry the fish will be. They’ll look more like subtle blobs of colour than actual fish. You’ll hardly notice this fish up here because it’s so far in from the edge fo the cake. Creatures that live in the ocean play an important role of supporting and maintaining the ocean as an ecosystem, which is a very important role, as around 50 percent (if not more) of the oxygen produced on Earth comes from the ocean. Imbalances in the food chain can cause detrimental damage to the ocean as an ecosystem. Even large zooplankton, some more than a foot long, consume microbes. Some planktonic snails, called pteropods, and also planktonic tunicates (a sub-group of chordates that includes salps and related forms) filter or catch single, floating cells and other particles in the water using mucus-lined structures. Beat 2 cups of unsalted butter on a medium speed for 30 seconds with a paddle attachment until smooth.Both salps and krill also live in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, and both feed directly on the great abundance of phytoplankton there. Scientists think that the extent of sea ice and the temperature of the ocean each year may influence the balance between salp and krill populations. When there is more sea ice, krill populations seem to thrive and salps do not; when there is less ice, salp populations increase and krill are less abundant. Krill are the main food for fish, whales, and seabirds in the Antarctic. Unfortunately, the gelatinous salps have much lower nutritional content and therefore are not good food for those higher-level animals. Oxygen in the water can simply filter through these cells and into the body of a jellyfish. Due to this, jellyfish don’t need to have blood pumping around their bodies like mammals and this means they have no reason to have a heart! Make the jello that will be used to make the gradient in the ocean first! It needs a couple hours to set. It can also be made up to a week in advance. Now carve your cakeinto some form of a dome by trimming the top edge off with a serrated knife so that the cake is curved around the top. It can be simple, like this, with just a few cuts to create the dome, or you can be much more elaborate, carving nooks and crannies into the top and sides of your cake.