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Nautical-Themed Baby Shower Cake

06 Friday Jan 2017

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Baby shower cake, double chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, nautical themed, sailboat, Sour cream vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream

I did a bunch of baby shower cakes last year and I’m so behind on posting, I’m only now getting to them. I also had orders for lots and lots of nautical or ocean-themed cakes. Not sure if there were enough to qualify as a “trend,” but it seemed like a wave of them during the summer and fall months (no pun intended :0).

This cute baby shower cake was fun and used a number of different icing and fondant techniques, so I thought I’d share…

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The mom-to-be knew just what she wanted in terms of style, I just added a few tweaks of my own.

For the cake, the bottom tier is a 9″ round chocolate and the top is a 6″ round vanilla.  Both are filled and iced with vanilla-bean buttercream  The decorations and boat are made from homemade marshmallow fondant (except the red, I buy that because it is so hard to make large quantities).

The little sail boat is made from brown fondant with lots of tylose powder (to make it stiff); I used a woodgrain stamp on the sides to make the fondant look like wood.  The biggest trick was letting the sails dry long enough to stand up and stick to the skewer, which goes down into the top tier to hold the boat in place and keep everything together.

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The baby boy was fun to make….There’s actually a cute little body under the blanket (wish I would have taken a picture).  I wanted the details on his little face to be subtle and soft, so I pressed them into the pliable fondant  with a needle tool and added a little dot of flesh-colored fondant for a nose. I drew his hair on with an edible marker…so cute.

The anchor and lifebuoys (that’s really what they’re called) are cut using cutters and the roping is 2 strands of fondant twisted together.

The bottom tier is iced with a rough surface to look like the water using a dark to light ombre technique.  The top tier is similar, just more smooth-iced.

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This was a fun cake for an excited mom-to-be.  It was back in November, so I’m sure she’s a happy (and exhausted) mom by now.  Congrats, Maria!

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Disney Nemo & Buzz Lightyear Baby Shower Cake

05 Saturday Mar 2016

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Baby shower cake, Buzz Lightyear, Disney Nemo, homemade marshmallow fondant, Sour cream vanilla cake, vanilla-bean frosting

A sweet woman who is one of my Mother-in-Law’s “Quilter Girls” came to me for a baby shower cake for her granddaughter. They were celebrating the impending birth of a baby boy and the theme of the shower was Disney.   The mother-to-be had a few favorite Disney movies, including “Finding Nemo” and “Toy Story,” so I picked Nemo and Buzz Lightyear for the cake.

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The characters are made to look like they have dimension by layering handcut fondant pieces one upon the other.  I found fairly detailed pictures of the images and made a few copies onto card stock.  I carefully cut out different elements of the images, starting with the parts that were “farthest” away and moving to the parts that were closest.  When laid atop one another, they look almost 3-dimensional.  The black details were painted on with food writer pens.

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This technique is fairly time consuming, but it adds a lot to a flat sheet cake and is easier than a full 3-D figure.  By far, the hardest part is getting the expressions on the faces, especially with beloved characters that everyone knows like Nemo and Buzz Lightyear. My ultimate goal was for the client to recognize the character at first glance–not always easy when working with fondant.

The cake was a half-sheet vanilla cake iced with vanilla-bean buttercream tinted pale blue.  The borders and dots were buttercream and the details were cut from homemade marshmallow fondant.

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Welcome to the world, baby Braxton…What a cutie, huh!?!  I enjoyed designing your cake!

 

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Baby Shower Buggy Cake

01 Saturday Mar 2014

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Baby shower cake, buggy, buttons, double chocolate cake, sour cream almond cake, Swiss Meringue Buttercream

A baby shower cake inspired by buggies, bottles, buttons…and elephants!  This is a 2-layer half sheet cake (double chocolate and white almond sour cream) filled with decadent raspberry mousse and frosted with creamy Swiss meringue buttercream.  The buggy and decorations are cut from homemade marshmallow fondant.

My inspiration for the buggy design was CorrieCakes and the buttons from Sprinkle Bakes “Buttons Birthday Cake” (very creative!).  A sweet celebration for the expectant couple!baby-shower-cake-1baby-shower-cake-12baby-shower-cake-13baby-shower-cake-4baby-shower-cake-3baby-shower-cake-7baby-shower-cake-9baby-shower-cake-10

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Life is crazy and I love to bake. I'm a wife, mother of 3 nutty kids, and an admitted sugar-holic. Ten years ago I left my job as a senior consulting engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to get out of the rat race and raise kids. We up and moved to a quiet, small town in NE Ohio to be near family and bought a 180-yr-old historic home, always a dream of mine. Along the way, I discovered my joy of baking, which allows both my engineering side and my oft-suppressed creative side to emerge. It began with the desire to bake birthday cakes for my kids (I hated to buy them) and has blossomed into a cupcake-baking business for a local bakery. Over the years, many people have asked if I take orders. So, here they are. Check out the site, we'll be adding new cupcake flavors weekly as well as the occasional cake. And in case you're wondering about the name, it's an homage to the big, old gray barn in my back yard. What a bonus, it came with the house! Put on a smile and BAKE!

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