More Baby Shower Cakes

At the daycare where I was working in the fall of 2009, there were two new grandmas! One of them was supposed to be in Arizona for the birth of her grand baby, but the baby had other plans and was born early! So, we had a "Grandma Shower" at the daycare, and I made a baby rattle cake. We knew it was a girl, so I made a pink rattle with a white handle, pink bow, and pink and white pacifier! The cake is a reduced sugar chocolate with reduced sugar frosting and a raspberry filling. (We really like raspberries here in NJ!) I used two round cakes, one cut smaller for the bottom of the rattle. I used a hollow, plastic dowel to connect the two cakes. The only problem is that I now realized how awful foil looked under my cakes. I definitely felt like this was the best cake I had made yet! What do you think??

On the same day, I made a smaller cake for another new grandma in the daycare, because I didn't want her to feel like her grand baby wasn't special. So, I used pieces of the rattle cake I had made to make a baby bottle in blue, since she now had a grandson.

If we jump to this fall, in September of 2010, I made the best cake every, in my opinion, haha! This was yet another baby shower cake, but from a non-traditional standpoint! From talking to the mom-to-be's sister in law, I had my idea confirmed as a good one, and got an idea of the flavors I needed to incorporate! The cake was made using the Wilton soccer ball pan, one nine inch round, and two large cupcakes. After everything was baked, I sliced the soccer ball in half. Each layer was filled with cannoli cream, strawberries, and banana slices. I did use a dam of butter cream frosting to hold in the cannoli cream. The nine inch round was on the bottom, followed by the bottom half of the soccer ball, followed by the top part of the soccer ball. I added the two cupcakes to look like the bosom on top of the pregnant belly. After frosting the whole shape, I draped it in white fondant. The polka dot colors collaborated with the colors of the baby shower, since we still don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl! We also decorated the funfetti cupcakes with vanilla icing and Necco wafers to mimic the polka dots.