Baby Animals Cake
by Heather Herrmann
Baby Animals Cake Instructions for the Baby Animals Cake: I fist made a cream cheese pound cake so I would have a solid base to support the fondant and the animals. I used store bought fondant on part of the cake in the interest of saving some time and homemade marshmallow fondant on the other parts, such as the animals and the weaving on the bottom layer. The bottom layer is a 10"x10"x2" square and the top is a 6"x3" round. I covered the bottom in white marshmallow fondant and then weaved multiple pastel colored strips into a basket weave over the white fondant. After covering the top layer with baby blue fondant, I set it on top of my bottom layer and added hand rolled balls that I made by combining the left over strips from basket weaving. I mixed it only partially to get a marbled look. The top layer ended up covering almost all of the weaving that took nearly an hour to do. I didn't think about it enough to figure that if I put a 6" round on top of a four inch square that I would only have 4" showing of the bottom layer. It was originally going to be a "Noah's Ark" theme but I ran out of time to duplicate the animals which I made a day or two before with fondant and left out to dry. The baby's name is on flat square block pieces that I made with gum paste and then placed them on silver wire at varying heights in front of the ark figure. This is only the fourth fondant cake I have made and out of all of them, this is my favorite.
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