Made in two nights for the baby shower of a good friend, to match the crib set she chose and the party decorations at the same time. Sizes are supposed to be 10-9-8, 8-7-6, 6-5-4 inches, though I don’t think I carved out that much from the bottoms. Bottom tier is chocolate with roasted hazelnuts Kahlua [...]
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Baby shower topsy-turvy w/ pastry crème abyss!
Posted in Baby, Cakes, tagged brown, cake, chocolate, flowers, ganache, kahlua, pastry creme, pink, topsy-turvy, vanilla on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Onesie Cake – Fondant Cake Number Three
Posted in Baby, Cakes, tagged baby shower cake onesie pink on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This Onesie® cake (yes, Gerber has a claim on the trademark even though it is a widely accepted generalized term) was for the surprise baby shower of a good friend. Unsuspecting, my friend thought she was coming over for some afternoon coffee, which we had almost made into a Thursday tradition this summer, only to [...]
The Baby Buggy – My Officially First Fondant Cake
Posted in Baby, Cakes, tagged baby shower cake baby buggy stroller pink on August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In a way, the Flowers cake was a practice run – even though both cakes were made simultaneously in the same stretch of two days – for the Baby Buggy cake for the baby shower of another good friend. I had seen several pictures of buggy cakes online and I was looking for an excuse [...]