This is a baby shower cake that I put together for my church. We were celebrating the birth of a baby girl for one of our members. I baked a vanilla cake and filled it with strawberry mousse and fresh cut strawberries! Let me just say that this was the best tasting vanilla cake I had made yet!
Truth be told, it was cake mix. I know! I feel like I cheated, but because money is tight I cannot always afford to bake from scratch, especially when I am donating the cake like I did here. I always tweak a cake mix to make it more my own, but I still feel like its not real baking. I am an aspiring baker, so my goal is to bake more from scratch!!!! I will create a vanilla cake this year, that is totally my own and from scratch and it will taste awesome! On another note, if someone is paying me to bake a cake for them, it is always from scratch!
I decided to do strawberry, because it was a baby girl cake, and once I had the vanilla cake and strawberry flavor in my mind I couldn't imagine this cake any other way!
One of my favorite sites for cake baking and decorating is cakecentral.com. So when it came to creating the booties for this cake, I turned to this amazing site for help. You can find not only cake ideas and recipes, but templates such as the booties, as well as a plethora of information and all to do with cake. Weather you are into cake decorating/baking as a hobby or like me aspiring business, you can find help with it all at cakecentral.com!
I knew that I was doing this cake in the beginning of the month, but it took me all month to figure out just what I was going to do. The little flowers were a last minute idea, and felt it really worked well with the white fondant!
I made the marshmallow fondant and will post a recipe for it under the recipe page.
Thanks for looking! Next cake is a 70th birthday slot machine themed cake! Also wedding cakes coming up later in the year. Just sat down with both brides to discuss ideas, but seeing how this is a first for me, it is a learning project!
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