My Cake Making Adventure...
Katelynn and my wonderful friend Rebecca helped me make this beautiful cake for a baby shower.
I thought it would be fun to show is step by step creation. Enjoy!
My special helper! Katelynn loves to jump right in and help me cook or bake. The recipe I used is one of Rebecca's special recipes that includes box cake mixes, sour cream, extra eggs, and pudding (just the dry powder). This cake is a white cake with cheesecake pudding. Supper yummy!
Prepping the pan with a flour, oil, and Crisco mixture to make sure it will come out easy.
All done baking. Ready for the real work to begin.
Rebecca was kind enough to let us use her house for our little cake fiasco.
After we took the cake out of the pan, I cut it in half and she leveled it off. She also added a raspberry filling before layering and shaping it.
Carving the cake to get just the right shape. You might notice the slightly blank looks on our faces, we worked for 4 hours to get this cake finished and called it quits around midnight. Rebecca is such a trooper! Thanks a bunch for all your help.
I made the fondant frosting out of marshmallows, powdered sugar, Crisco, water, and gel food color.
Mixing the powdered sugar into the marshmallow mixture for a nice stiff fondant.
Rebecca adding a light layer of regular frosting as a "crumb coat" to keep the little crumbs from getting all over when we put the fondant on. This is the second cake like this Rebecca has helped me make. Look back through my other post and you will see a pink and black version of this.
Look at all that yummy mess! We snacked on the scraps left over from carving the cake. Mmmmmmm........yummy.
After the fondant was well mixed, it was rolled out into a thin sheet and layed over the top of the cake.
Fitting the fondant sheet snugly around the cake shape to bring out the details.
Adding the flowers to the dress and a rope around the edges to finish it off.
A little detail was added to the neck line and Voila! It is finished...thanks to the talents of....
Master Cake Maker #1: Rebecca (she is a self taught cake connoisseur, she did all the hard stuff)
Cake Maker #2: Sarah (on the next cake I have decided to attempt it all on my own, that should be interesting)
Final presentation of the cake at the baby shower. Everyone loved it and commented on how good it looked...and how it tasted even better!
January 2011
Cute! I liked reading all the captions. :) You did a good job putting it all together to show the process. Yay for us! :)
ReplyDeleteYour cake turned out so cute! Your blog is really fun and I'm excited to look at all your crafting projects. You should put your Christmas card holder on; it turned out really cute.
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