A Gift For Baby

by Debbie
(San Marcos, Texas )

The strawberry cake was coated with buttercream then covered with fondant which I tinted blue. I cut the circles from fondant that I colored green, yellow and pale blue. I embossed the pale blue fondant with an embossing pin prior to cutting out.

The "tissue paper" was created by rolling the fondant and embossing with the embossing pin, I shaped it and let it dry over flower formers before applying it to the top edge of the cake.

The "lid" is a thin layer of strawberry cake, again covered in fondant with colored fondant circles added. I made the "BABY" letters from piping a royal icing outline and flooding in the letters. When they were dry I piped lines, dots, and small "T's" on the letters (T for baby Tylon). The letters were applied to the lid with a little royal icing and then I piped blue leaves (royal icing) around the bases of the letters and added a few sugar flowers. I piped tip # 3 plain dots in sets of 3 between the fondant circles.

After sitting the cake on the board, I applied ribbon "IT'S A BOY" around the board base, piped a border at the bottome edge of the cake and edge of the cake board in royal icing and flooded the board with a thinned royal icing. A ruffle border was added to the base of the cake board and the edge of the lid.

After trial and tribulation I decided the way to prop the lid open - so it would look like an open gift box with exposed tissue paper, would be to place a small half circle of styrofoam behind the "tissue paper" so that the styrofoam would bear the weight of the lid. It worked!

This cake was an enormous hit at the party yesterday!