Daisy & Butterfly Baby Cake
by Rebecca Lee
Daisy & Butterfly Baby Cake For this Daisy & Butterfly Baby Cake I decided to do (4) 9 inch layers with alternating chocolate and sour cream pound cake. The filling was vanilla buttercream and I used homemade fondant to cover the cake and for the decorations. I made the flowers, baby, baby blanket, butterflies and letters in advance. For the flowers, I used homemade fondant colored with pale yellow, pink, and some I left white. I also colored a little of the fondant orange for the inside of the flowers.  special deal for our readers! I used a gum paste daisy cut out and then shaped them with a flower tool with the ball end and used a toothpick to indent the petals. I let them dry on wax paper dusted with cornstarch. I then pinched tiny pieces of the orange fondant and rolled them. I placed a few of these inside each flower, attaching with fondant adhesive (fondant thinned with water), and let them dry. I used fondant with a little green coloring to make the leaves. I cut them out with a leaf shaped cut out and then used a toothpick to indent the leaves. I put them on wax paper dusted with cornstarch to dry. For the baby, I colored the fondant with a little of the light copper color. I rolled out the head and the nose and used fondant colored with black coloring to make the eyes, and the hair. I also made a pink bow for the hair. I attached the hair, the bow. the nose and the eyes with fondant adhesive. I then used the copper colored fondant to make the shape of the baby body. I attached the head to the body with fondant adhesive. I made the blanket with pink fondant. I used a fondant rolling tool with attachment to make the design on the blanket. Then I used a fork to do the edges of the blanket. I attached the blanket to the baby with fondant adhesive. For the butterflies, I used a butterfly cut out and then let them dry in a concave tray. After they were dry I used a brush to dust them with pink and yellow pearl dust. Then I made the letters using fondant colored with pale pink, powder blue, light green and light yellow. I used letter cut outs to make the letters. The next day I baked the cakes, stacked them with the icing, shaped them and put a crumb coat on. The final day I rolled out white fondant and covered the cake. I added all of the decorations using fondant adhesive. I think it turned out terrific!! See more cute baby shower cakes
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