IT'S A BOY Baby Shower Cake

by Donna
(Santa Ana, Ca.)

IT'S A BOY Baby Shower Cake

This "IT'S A BOY Baby Shower Cake" was just a fun and exciting cake for me to make.

I made this cake for a woman who already knew that her baby would be a boy.

The first thing that I did before even baking the cakes was to make the baby shoes 1 week in advance to give the shoes time to dry.

I made the shoes using a free printable shoe template that I just happened to find while searching the internet.

I printed out the template and then just cut and traced over rolled out gum paste that I had colored. The shoes and cake color were made to look exactly how they appeared on the invite.

They matched perfectly. The laces were made of fondant. All of the accents on the cake were made of marshmallow fondant in which I had found the recipe for by also searching the internet.

The blue pearls were made by simply rolling fondant into pearl size balls and then rolling them in pearl luster dust. I "glued" them to the cake using royal icing.

The roses,(I found these instructions on-line as well by just searching the internet typing in "fondant roses") brown leaves, and diamond shapes are also made with colored marshmallow fondant.

The plaque that the shoes are on is a simple 6-inch cake drum circle that I covered in matching fondant and placed on top of the cake. The shoes are placed onto the plaque accordingly and "glued" down with more royal icing.

I used a pretty brown ribbon to match and placed around each tier of cake to give it a nice accent. The cake itself, once frosted was placed on a cake drum that I had previously covered in matching blue fondant and accented with the same matching ribbon.

The cake itself in this case, was two tiers, the bottom tier being 10 inches and the top being 8 inches, slightly sculpted with a serrated knife to give it that whimsical look.

I baked the cakes from scratch and filled with lemon-raspberry filling. The outside of the cake is iced with a Swiss Meringue buttercream that I tinted a slight light shade of blue color.

I did use wooden dowels to support the cakes. I really enjoyed making and decorating this baby shower cake. All of the cake supplies that I used can all be found at most cake supply stores and if not available, can definitely be purchased on-line.
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