Babies!

While I was at the lake for Memorial weekend my mom told me she was going to a baby shower the next weekend. She asked me if I'd like to make the cake. Sometimes I take on more than I should. I said yes.

Any baby shower cakes I've seen are made with fondant. I've played with fondant a total of...oh 1 time...So on Tuesday when we got back home from the lake I started playing with fondant again. I made an entire cake in one day.

This is what I came up with. Of course I took the picture from the best side. It had wrinkles and cracks. Some of the fondant wasn't covering the cake. The next day the bow fell flat and melted a bit. But that was due to it being hot in our apartment and not letting the fondant dry enough.

So my REAL cake adventure started on Friday.

I made the bow and flower.

Placed pearl sprinkles in the center of every flower. It was tedious but they look great.

And this is the finished product! I was very happy with myself. It still had some wrinkles but they were easily covered by the ribbons. It was a big hit. The mother to be loved it.

It was supposed to be a pink velvet cake, but it turned out a little more red than I wanted. Didn't matter though because it was still good! You can't really tell but there is also pink cream cheese icing between the layers.

And this is me with the cake! Yay!