Sunday
Jan172010
Sunday Sweets: Baby Showers
January 17, 2010 Over the past few weeks we've seen plenty of ways to do it wrong, so here are some sweet ways to do a shower cake right.
(As always, if you recognize a cake that's not credited please let me know.)
(By Cake Lady Cakes)Hey, we haven't had one of these in while - so how about a mostly fondant-free Sweet?
(By Cake Central member dinkadoo)Here's another mostly fondant-free beauty:
(Made by Megan Blackburn. See more of her stuff here)Proof that you really can get buttercream that smooth! Oh, and those pink ruffles are fantastic. (Hey bakers, which tip do you use for those? Just a simple flat one?)
I pretty much love everything there is to love about this next one:
(Baker Unknown)
That's an engineering feat right there - and so many great details!
Which isn't to say that simple can't be gorgeous, of course:
(By Latrells25)And lastly, I thought this was a clever way to hide columns, in addition to being adorable:
(By Patisserie Ganache)Ah, you just can't go wrong with buttons and bows. :)
Have a Sweet to nominate? E-mail it to me at Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com!
Reader Comments (79)
They also make ruffle tips, although I think those are made by Ateco and not Wilton.
Elizabeth, I also thought "Goodnight, sweet prince," from Hamlet. I would not want to see that on a shower cake. Seems like a very bad omen.
Great cakes. I heard you on "The Splendid Table" on NPR today. Great job!
I had a rocking horse just like that when I was little! My niece is using it now.
Eh, I'm not too fond of the bassinet cake. It looks a little coffinish to me. The "Sweet Prince" cake is kind of creepy too.
The teapot cake is excellent though.
That first mostly fondant-free was amazing. I can NEVER get basket weave to look so good. But that's why I'm a sailor, not a baker, I guess.
The pink and brown "K" is my favorite. It looks like the buttercream was smoothed with a paper towel - you can refrigerate the cake until the frosting is cold and solid, then gently place paper towel against the surface and (also gently) smooth the paper towel against the frosting with your hand. When you peel the paper towel away, it will have that look. (Note - use a paper towel without a perforated pattern!)
The topsy-turvy teapots are amazing. The only thing that keeps me alive on Monday mornings is coming in to look at Sunday Sweets (no, I don't look at it at home on the weekend. I don't need to be cheered up on the weekend!). :)
The brown and blue bear shower cake is from cakecentral member veragatafera. I loved everything about it too and had it saved in my favorites!
@bridget and others creeped out by the rocking-horse - it appears to be a replica of an actual rocking horse that I've seen before. I'm not able to find a photo of it online, but I've seen more than one of them in church nurseries and people's homes and antique/thrift stores. The fault is definitely not with the cake maker - it really looks just like the horse it must have been modeled after.
Every single one is a-freakin-dorable! (the tipsy teapot one is also a-freakin-amazing!)
What is wrong with the eyeball on that rocking horse? That's nightmare inducing creepiness. All the other cakes are absolutely lovely.
My cousin and I both have rocking horses like that first cake, made by our (late) grandpa.
I'm not a fan of babies, but I am a fan of these cakes! Adorable all around.
OMG! That horsey cake! I HAD that rocking horse! My dad made it for me when I was a tyke. My mom's still got it and my youngest nephew is enjoying it now more than 45 years later.
I found a photo of the right shape; however, this one is unpainted. You can see the distinctive wavy mane and the curved-forward head, though. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V7IT9bKqNuA/SVEq-aEPk6I/AAAAAAAAClE/D2Nebc1FcBE/s400/RockingHorseByGrandpa.jpg
"It's a little creepy to have a baby cake with the "sweet prince" phrase on it. Is there another meaning besides Horatio mourning Hamlet's death?"
Yeah, I thought that too. I love Hamlet, and that's one of my favorite lines "Goodnight, sweet prince. Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." But I don't want Hamlet's death quoted at my baby shower.
The brown and pink cake with the "K" monogram is cute, but the feet are all wrong. Babies and toddlers' footprints do not have arch definition like that.
WV: Boozo: Krusty at the Greek Festival
Aww, it's very beautiful cakes! I hope some day that i can do cakes like that:)
awww
Okay is it just me, or does that rocking horse cake at the top confuse you? It's either looking demurely down or enticingly over it shoulder. Creepy either way.
no... id have to say most of these are still pretty creepy.
The wildly tilting pink teapot cake is a nice analogy for how new parents feel once their first baby is born. :-) I wonder if the mother-to-be knows this? It *is* lovely, though.
These cakes are gorgeous!
Wilton does make a ruffle tip (#86) but I believe those sweet pink ruffles were made with a 127, which is a giant rose tip. That's what we use in Course 3, anyway :)
The Sweet Prince reference made me think first of Celine Dion and her son, then of MJ's two boys.
I've done several wedding cakes with basket weave and it is hard to get it so perfect...kudos to the decorator!
I had that rocking horse- my Dad made it for me!
I'm pretty sure the Sweet Prince cake is a cupcake cake. So not bad considering, but not as good as everything else in this post...
I'm going to go on record to agree with the others here--love all of them except the "Sweet Prince" cake, and I don't know how you'd serve the teapot cake.
My problems with the "Sweet Prince" cake began with the dubious reference, and quickly continued along the lines of: off-center, shaky inscription; somewhat (disturbingly) asymmetrical form; tacked-on-looking hanger; and something... weird... going on with the leg holes. Personally, I have to disagree completely. But the rest are great and I love the horse! Too cute.
buttercream is smoothed using the viva paper towel method.
What beautiful cakes!