Happy Birthday , Baby Jesus

by H.J.
(Springfield, KY)

This was a spur-of-the-moment cake after my sister-in-law requested it a few hours before our family Christmas celebration. I pulled a small 6-inch cake out of the freezer. I iced it with buttercream. The manger was a rice krispy treat I removed from the cookie tray I was taking to the celebration, hollowed out the center and covered with some leftover brown fondant. I rolled out some yellow fondant, cut it into strips, and let it dry to make the straw. The baby is just some pink fondant rolled in a short tube with a head and wrapped in white fondant. I sprayed a little blue color onto the white buttercream so the manger would stand out from the background. I finished with a simple shell border. This all took about an hour. All the children at the party loved the cake, but nobody wanted to eat Baby Jesus!