Baby Basinette

by Yvette Romero
(Chicago, IL, USA)

This was my final cake for a cake decorating course where we learned basket weave. It's 1/4 of a ball pan on a 7 3/4 oval pan double layer choc, strawberry filled. I had so much fun decorating this lil guy.

pregnant lady cake

by Maria Mendoza
(Brooklyn, NY)

I did this for my niece. She is having a boy. She loved the cake which was a surprise. Everyone loved it. It was a Pueroriquen recipe that requires a syrup bath. I added a little brandy to it. Decorated it with satin fondant, and fondant details. Made a cold porcelain stork holding a baby. She loved it. The flavor of the cake was almond. The frosting was a recipe I learn from Sharon Zambito.

Baby Rattle Cupcakes

These are so cute and easy. They'd make a great addition to a baby shower. Check out how to make them in this Betty Crocker Video.

Bye Bye Belly

by Jordene
(Knight)

I love making these cakes for a baby shower, I used a 12" square as the base and a 6" semi circle pan and 3" semi circle pan for the boobs.

I covered the belly and the boobs with fondant and out it out in a shape of a dress. Then I decorated the out line of the dress and the base of the cake.

baby shower cake

by Cristal R
(Gallatin, TN USA)

This cake was a white cake with my own special mix of flavorings (mostly vanilla with citrus oils) for my sweet niece. I made it to welcome her second son, Cade. The frosting is homemade buttercream with complimentary flavorings to match the cake.

My other niece that was giving the shower wanted to have 'squares' or individual 'blocks' to serve, but I work full time (I am a school teacher) and just didn't have the time...so this was the brain child idea I had. It has baby quilt patterns on the edge border with a icing window in the middle welcoming my sweet grand nephew!

The rattle is made with a white chocolate covered oreo cookie and the handle is made of tinted buttercream. The blocks are pieces of cake that I froze and dipped in white chocolate. I used buttercream (as my niece does not like fondant...) to write the numbers and dots on each of them.

They are secured onto the cake with toothpicks. The baby booties are 3-D as well. I really enjoyed making this cake; but next time I will make sure it is perfectly straight on the border lines... :D

Baby Shower Cake and Cookie Bouquet

by Joanne Clifton
(Fredericksburg, Texas)

Two of the girls that work with my sister are expecting. It was decided to make a cake for the two of them for a baby shower. The cake was sour cream chocolate fudge- really rich, iced with vanilla creme frosting smooth, then topped with a chocolate fudge cake on top of the sheet cake in the shape of a stork.

The stork was a Wilton character pan, iced with tip 21 for the majority, tip 4 for outlining, tip 12 for the eye, tip 32 for the ruffle, a drop flower for the flowers, leaf tip for those, tip 3 for flower centers, and fondant butterflies to accent.

The cookie bouquet decorations were pictures found on the web, duplicated one for the decoration and another to cut the cookie out of sugar cookie dough (Wilton's recipe).

Decorations were made with Wilton Color Flow recipe. The baby was made with candy disk melted and placed in plastic mold.

Baby Nappy Bag Cake

by CORNELIA MARREIROS
(Richards Bay, South Africa)

Baby Nappy Bag for a baby shower party!

Heavenly Cradle Cake

by Brenda Holland
(Lucedale, MS USA)

I often have a little batter left over, so I make 6 inch layers, freeze, wrap and label. I was given a royal icing cradle pattern from my cake decorating teacher and was dying to try it out....no baby showers but our daughter is a Labor and Delivery nurse and she surely needs a happy day cake!

I had made the cradle at least a few weeks before. The pieces are made by using a medium/stiff royal icing with Wilton's White tint added. I piped with No. 3 tip the outline first of the head, foot, bottom and sides.

Then a few hours later I flooded the head, foot and sides and then piped the sides using a lattice design. They were left to completely dry almost 2 days, before I got the courage to attach all the pieces using dots of royal icing. Assembly was one side to head, bottom to side, other side to head and bottom and then after a few hours, the foot-end.

The cake itself was a Pillsbury butter cake that I tweaked with buttermilk and almond, vanilla and butter flavorings. I thawed the 2 layers, leveled them and filled with traditional homemade cream cheese filling before crumb coating and covering with a homemade crusting buttercream lightly tinted with Wilton's Lemon Yellow on side and Royal Blue on top.

When I decided to make a cake for our L&D daughter, I added dots of pink royal icing to head and foot, along with a royal icing flower and piped "L & D" on the crib and her name on the cake itself in yellow buttercream.

The cradle needed a heavenly cloud, which I piped in white BC with a No. 12 tip. The baby is RI piped dot flattened. Face was drawn with a food marker and pillow and blanket are piped buttercream.

Ideas are taken from a variety of my favorite blogs and then just my imagination. Babies are gifts from God...and so are the nurses who help bring them into the world.

Flower ruffle onesie

by Lori
(South Vienna, Ohio, USA)

I made this cake for my daughters child development class. All the girls cared for "flour children" for one week. This was to give them a little "shower" celebration on the last day of the experiment.

I followed a picture and free handed the design of the onesie of a sheet cake. I filled the cake with chocolate mousse pudding and then crumb coated with chocolate butter cream. I let the cake "rest" over night in fridge.

I made marshmallow fondant and covered the onesie. I then made the ruffles by rolling out the purple fondant paper thin and rolled a toothpick on the edges to create the "ruffle" look.

I used a cornstarch lid with the ridges to create the lines on the purple seams of the onesie. I then used a flower tip to create the flowers on the onesie.

The end result I felt was so adorable. I received lots of compliments on the cake.