Waves are super easy. Ice the top of the cake thicker than normal. You don't have to worry about smoothing any areas that will have waves. Simply take your icing knife/spatula and make swirls and when you pull up, the icing will lift into little peaks. Just play around with it until you get the look you want. For the colors, I'd ice the cake in a patchwork of blue, teal, and a bit of white here and there. When you create the waves, the colors will blend together to look like water.
use 7 minute or fluffy white icing mix for the waves, it works awesome! you can tint it with color also...
it's the same as fluffy white, both are beast eaten the day it's made though. here's a recipe from Paula Deen...
Cook Time7 min
Level
Easy
Yield
Frosting for 1 layer cake or approximately 8 to 12 cup cakes
CloseTimes
rep5 min Inactive Prep-- Cook7 min Total:12 min Recipe
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar or 1 tablespoon white corn syrup
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup water
2 egg whites
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Directions
Place sugar, cream of tartar or corn syrup, salt, water, and egg whites in the top of a double boiler. Beat with a handheld electric mixer for 1 minute. Place pan over boiling water, being sure that boiling water does not touch the bottom of the top pan. (If this happens, it could cause your frosting to become grainy). Beat constantly on high speed with electric mixer for 7 minutes. Beat in vanilla.
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What is 7 minute? Since I've never made my own icing before, I was planning on trying to make butter cream.
7 minute frosting is a fluffy meringue type frosting, often associated with coconut cake. It gets it's name from the traditional method of making it, which involves cooking egg whites and sugar in a double boiler for seven minutes. I make it all the time, but I use meringue powder and add a boiled sugar syrup instead, it's easier and more consistent to me, but it does require the use of a candy thermometer.
Since this is the first time you're making your own icing, I would stick with one of the easier buttercream recipes, unless you're well-versed in cooking or candy making.
Coloring the icing pale blue and low-lighting it with the spray tint should work great. Make sure you practice a bit with the spray before you try to apply it to the cake. You need to figure out the right distance from the cake to get the affect you want.
Have fun! Waves are pretty much impossible to mess up.
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