Baby Max Baby Shower Cake

by Beverly Bruno
(Nutley, NJ)

Baby Max Shower Cake

The Baby Max cake was made for a very special baby that will be born in February 2010. He is the only survivor of quadruplets and he has a very rare heart defect which will require open heart surgery when he is two days old, so I wanted to make something very special for the Mom and Dad's baby shower. My cake may not be as profession, but it is unique and made with lots of love.

The base of the cake was made with scratch yellow cake batter equivalent to eight two-layer cakes. I added two packages of instant vanilla pudding and about 1/2 cup Miracle Whip. The cake was moist a week later. Everything was frosted with basic butter cream frosting. The sides were white, the top was tinted an uneven blue/green to look like a wavy pond.

Baby Max was made with two rectangle 8" pans layered with frosting. I then carved the shape of the baby. The scraps were used to form legs and arms. I used milk to thin the frosting to seal the crumbs. I then frosted the entire cake with tinted butter cream frosting using a star tip (hides the flaws in carving). Max has a plastic pacifier in his mouth and two diaper pins on his diaper with a rattle on the platform with him. The platform is simply cardboard bent to form a platform and covered with aluminum foil. A 12" rubber duck was placed in the pond. A few of the kids at the shower put the little white rubber duck and extra diaper pin and pacifiers on the cake. The name is simply white foam.

My cake may not look bakery perfect, but it was a huge hit with everyone and delicious.

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