Baby Shower Cake

My Sister In Law asked me to make a cake for her baby shower last week. I went online to the Wilton website to try to get some ideas. I saw this one and figured it was cute and looked easy enough. While it wasn't HARD, it was still very time consuming. I'm glad I didn't choose something more elaborate because I'm not sure if I would have had time to sleep!

The head of the cake was vanilla with vanilla cream filling and vanilla buttercream icing. The body of the cake was swiss chocolate with mint buttercream filling and icing. It was covered in a ton of fondant and the feet, arms, and ears were made of cake board covered by fondant.

Final Wilton Class cake

Well, I took my last Wilton cake class the week of Thanksgiving. This was a tiered cake. I wanted to do the version where the layers sit right on top of each other but for a couple of reasons I decided to stick to the columns (which are plastic and pretty eh). It would be easier to transport the cake this way, and then my instructor was supposed to bring things that would help us with the cake (hedge clippers, a little hammer, etc) but she didn't bring them. She actually offered to go around the corner to the store to buy some more but I wouldn't let her.

We had a choice of different flowers to make from all the flowers we learned in the class. I started off by making some fondant roses, but they were so time consuming and I had zero desire to spend both days of my weekend making fondant flowers. So I switched to royal icing flowers instead. I was done in a couple of hours. Much better!

Since I worked from home the day after making this cake, this is the only one that I didn't take to work to get devoured. I took it to the Hartgrove's house for Thanksgiving, then to my parent's house, and there was still so much left over. And I even threw away the top tier because it had cream in it and I didn't refridgerate it. So much cake!