Lingerie Cake

The next cake I made was for a friends bridal shower. I decided to make a lingerie cake, as that was the theme for the party. This was the first time I covered a cake in fondant and was a little worried about it, but it wasn't that hard at all! I did use store bought fondant to cover the cake, but I made sure to have some yummy icing underneath it. I made the base of the cake out of a 9x13 pan and used cupcakes to make the boobs. I made a template of the shape I wanted and cut the 9x13 cake accordingly. Then I placed the muffins in the appropriate places and shaped them. The I covered the entire cake with icing and used it to help smooth out the details, before placing the fondant on top. Once I covered the cake with fondant, I used ribbon to decorate it, in order to give it a more realistic look. All in all, it only took me an hour to assemble and decorate the cake the morning of the shower, which I thought wasn't too bad, since I'd worked a night shift the night before.

The cake was a big hit at the party. Happy Nuptials Sarah W!

Teddy Bear baby shower

The next cake I made was for another baby shower. This cake was again, inspired by a cake picture I found online. The only change I made was to make colors of the cake fit with the nursery colors. In learning from my previous mistakes, I made the cake from scratch and covered it with homemade chocolate marshmallow fondant. For those of you who haven't tried it, the homemade marshmallow fondant tastes MUCH better than the store bought stuff. I made my bow, bear and dots out of store bought fondant because I've found that it holds its shape much better and colors easier than the homemade. I've also found that if you want your fondant to dry out and harden, the store bought doesn't crack, but the homemade will. In order to keep my bow pieces 3-D, I wrapped the actual bow parts around napkin rings and let them dry over a few days. I also made my bear ahead of time and let him dry out as well. I assemled the cake the day of the shower and delivered that afternoon. I only charged $40 for the cake, which, as my husband pointed out, didn't give me much profit, but I could care less about that. It's all for fun!

My First Cake

My first cake was a cake I made for a baby shower. The theme was farm animals, so I decided to make a barnyard cake. I looked all over the Internet at pictures of farm animal cakes and found a few that inspired me. I was apprehensive about covering a cake in fondant, so I decided to frost it and use my fondant to make the decorations. The most time consuming part of the whole thing was coloring the fondant, which my husband was kind enough to help me with. (He's a keeper!). After I had all my colors, I started to make my animals and barn. I made a cow, a pig, a duck and a chicken. The barn was made from a cake I baked in a bread pan and then shaped to look like a barn. After I was happy with my work, I let my animals dry overnight and assembled the cake the day before the shower.

It was definitely a learning experience. I learned to never use a boxed cake mix to make a cake that will have fondant pieces on top of it or things will sink! I also learned that if I'm not covering the entire cake with fondant, I need to make sure my frosting is stiff enough to stay on the cake and not slide down. However, despite the many faults that I saw in my cake, the mommy-to-be loved it and that was all that mattered.