Moon and Stars Baby Shower Cake

by Rebekah Springer
(Aberdeen, Washington)

Moon and Stars Baby Shower Cake

Moon and Stars Baby Shower Cake

I made this for a friend of mine, and had free reign over the design of the cake. It is one of my favorites.

I used a 2-layer 10" white cake with raspberry filling and a 2-layer 8" chocolate with raspberry filling.

I made the baby out of fondant, painting on closed eyes, a mouth and black hair with watered down food color gel and let dry for several days.

I made the moon and stars out of colored fondant and covered in edible glitter. I made the moon quite a bit thicker than the stars to help it keep stabilized. I glued a wooden dowel on the moon with royal icing to stick it down into the cake. These also dried for a few days.

I frosted the cakes in white butter cream and piped on a very light blue cloud border and a large cloud on top in the middle.

I put the baby on the cloud using wooden dowels to keep him from sinking into the butter cream cloud, and I placed the stars here and there and put the moon on last piping some "clouds" around the base to help keep stable.

Moon and Stars Baby Shower Cake