Friday 15 November 2013

Baby Shower cake

I love baby showers and think they are a lovely opportunity to welcome and celebrate a new life coming into the world so I was delighted when i was asked to make a baby shower cake. I've always admired baby shower cakes that look like baby bums so i was happy when a friend sent me a picture of one asking if I could make it for her baby shower. She didn't find out the sex of her baby so she went for a neutral lemon coloured cake. I loved making this cake and was really happy with how it turned out. I looked at several ways of making the legs and feet including wrapping icing around Rice Krispie cakes moulded into the shape of legs or using Swiss rolls as leg shapes. I was unsure how that would turn out so I just went with the technique of using just icing and rolled and moulded it into the shape of legs, I felt it might look more realistic like that. And it worked. This cake has been one of the favourite cakes ive made so far and I would love to make again!