Don't you just love new babies? I'm going to meet my beautiful new niece next week, and I'm so excited. This weekend, I made a baby shower cake for the niece of a family friend, who is expecting a baby boy in a few weeks. My client asked for chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream, and she wanted the cake to say, "Have a great day!" because her niece's last name is Day. Other than that, I had free reign with the decorations. What fun! I took inspiration from the cake I made for my sister's baby shower and made fondant decorations: buttons, onesies, a teddy bear, and a cute little frog prince.
I did the buttons differently this time. It was a little faster, and they came out just as cute. Instead of indenting the center, I just used the large end of a piping tip to press a circle onto each button. A bamboo skewer is just the right size for the center holes.
For the cake, I used Martha Stewart's one bowl chocolate cake recipe again. It's super dark, almost Oreo-colored, and perfectly moist. It's actually not very sweet, despite having three cups of sugar in the batter; the cocoa offsets the sweetness. It pairs really well with the vanilla buttercream, which has just a hint of almond extract.
Oh! And lest I forget to give credit where due, I took inspiration for the frog from this great tutorial. It's not in English, but the pictures work in any language!
The hostesses loved the cake, and I hope the mom-to-be did, too!
Comments
I was wondering about "Have a great day" - makes much more sense now.
Seriously - between this cake and your bundt cake...I'm drooling.
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