Peas in a Pod Cake

by Penny
(Ottawa, Canada)

Peas In A Pod Cake

It was a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling. The icing is all Marshmallow Fondant, the flowers, peas, pod and baby are all made of fondant.

It's just like playing with Playdough.
I broke it down into pieces, so 5 days before the baby shower I made the flowers and set them in the curved plastic flower holders for them to dry. I then made the baby, pea pod and peas. The pod was an oval piece of fondant pinched at the ends and then I made little waves in the sides to make it look a little more realistic.

If you make this cake make sure that the bottom of the pod doesn't stick!! I had to start over a couple of days later and it wasn't quite as dry as I would have liked. The baby is just a round ball piece for the head and a round flat piece for the hair. The body is an oval, no other shapes (no arms/legs as it would be hidden anyway.) The blanket is a square and is wrapped around the baby and then inserted into the pod.

Once the cake is covered in your fondant, go ahead and place everything on it in a way that you like. I had to fool around with it a bit, but liked the finished product.