Welcome Baby Boy!

My second pair of gum paste shoes in a month.  I'm LOVING these things!  How cute are they?  Cathy wanted a baby boy shower cake and sent me a copy of the invitation to base the cake on.  The invitation had polka dots and a little blue bib on it.  I incorporated the polka dots on the side of the cake and made the bib for the top.  I put together a pair of little boy shoes for the topper and I think this is just about one of the cutest cakes, if I do say so myself.   ;)

This was a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge, buttercream and OREO filling.  One of my favorites and sure crowd pleaser!

Congrats to the soon-to-be mommy!

Baby Cakes

I've done this cake before.  But not for Christine, a wonderful gal I went to high school with.  I was SUPER excited to help her out with a baby shower she was helping to plan at her work.  The mother-to-be requested a confetti cake and that's what both of these were.  Confetti cake with vanilla buttercream filling.

I wish I meant to do it, but I love how the cake round under the head looks like a baby bonnet.  A happy accident!

I hope that the baby shower was a success!  Thanks, Christine, for thinking of me for your event!

A Shower Cake

My friend Lori emailed me a few weeks back requesting a cake for a baby shower she was co-hosting for her sister-in-law.  She came across a really cute design online and forwarded the picture to me.  My goal was to recreate it as closely as possible.  I think it's a really cute cake and has lots of fun colors.  This cake took me way longer than I thought it would - and I knew it would be time-consuming.  First of all, coloring fondant takes time and there were a lot of colors on this cake.  But the flowers with the tiny dots around the center took the most time.  There was one of those for every color.  Decorating alone took me 4 1/2 hours.  Add in baking time and this was a whole day's work!  (But I do so love it!)

Her sister-in-law doesn't know if she's having a boy or a girl and that is why this cake was perfect!  I really liked how it turned out.

Both tiers were marble cakes with raspberry buttercream filling.  The outside is decorated with vanilla buttercream and fondant details. 

Thanks again, Lori!  I love making cakes for you!