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BABY SHOWER CAKE DIRECTIONS patterns below

I created this cake for the baby shower when my first grandchild, Christopher Phillips, was born.

When I decided on the "message" it must have been ESP. "Look Out World, Here I Come," has held to be SO true!

Chris is now in his 3rd year of college and Air Force ROTC (2002). He is a computer "nut" - he created his own web site then also created one for his Air Force squandron recently. (And actually, it is thanks to him that I learned enough about that to make my own web site.) I taught him, then he taught me!...UPDATE! He is graduating May 3, 03! He is such a good boy! I'm so proud of him!

NEEDED:

Horseshoe Pan Cake (one end of the cake will be discarded)
8" round cake
Ball Pan Cake: use only 1 side of pan
2 - 10" Separator Plates With 4 Pillars (The ones shown are no longer available). You could replace them with either the Clown pillars or simply glue baby blocks together.
PATTERNS: See below for the picture.
World
Stork
Clouds

ROYAL ICING DAISIES-MY WAY: Use tip 101, stripe bag with darker colored icing, (not straight food coloring). Starting in center of nail, large end of tip on the nail in center, move out to end of nail, turn nail slightly counter-clockwise (if you are right-handed) and move back to center. IMPORTANT: The large end of the tip MUST be touching the nail. In the center, apply very light pressure or you will get a thick build-up of icing that you won’t like.
TIP: When making royal icing flowers on a nail; I apply a very tiny glob of Florist Clay to my nail, instead of icing. This allows my wax paper square to attach firmly. I never need icing for glue and its much faster. (We sell Florist Clay - a strip for $.30). Will last a long time. You don't need an entire pack. It would dry up long before you used it all
COLOR-FLO CLOUDS: (See pattern) Free-hand several ‘clouds’ on wax paper - no outlines, dry overnight, fit them on 8" cake after you have added the borders.
WHITE CHOCOLATE BABY Using Baby Candy Mold #90-9801: Paint coating chocolate of appropriate colors into baby candy mold, fill with one solid color; chill and unmold. Plastic baby with wings IS available if you don't want to make it out of chocolate coating.

CARDBOARDS AND FDA FOIL FOR COVERING THE FULL-SHEET CAKE: Place two or three 25x18-inch cardboards together for sturdiness. Make a pattern for all 4 and cut corners rounded. TIP: We put 2 cardboards together with a slightly smaller one between them. This is more sturdy. Cut up boxes aren't nearly as strong as regular cake cardboards, also.

DIRECTIONS:

1. HORSESHOE CAKE: Trim one end off the horseshoe cake and place on the cardboard. (You'll need to pull the horseshoe cake a bit straighter and fill in the cracks). Ice the sides, smooth with blue icing. Write your message: "Look out world, Here I come". Pipe tip 228 bottom border (like you do star fill-in). Pipe tip 19 rainbow rows of shells.

2. WORLD CAKE: Place the "world" cake on the board. Ice smooth blue. Draw the USA (see pattern below) on with tip 3 black icing. Fill in tip 14 stars.

3. 8-INCH CAKE: Set on 10 inch top separator. Ice smooth. Airbrush blue, darker towards the bottom. Pipe tip 1 embroidery free-hand stork (see pattern), pipe baby and flowers. Pipe tip 228 bottom border. (You can add tip 1 or 2 stringwork on the 228 star, if you like). Pipe tip 14 rainbow shells in circles for a rug and add tip 233 fringe.

SETUP

Place color-flo clouds behind the baby.

Place a 10-inch separator plate on the cardboard, gluing it in place with icing.

Place royal icing daisies on the plate and pipe tip 352 green leaves.

Add 4 pillars and the finished 8-inch cake

TIP: If you have an airbrushed, to spray on the blue, the cake will have soft-to-deep shades of blue. I also airbrushed the smooth sides of the horseshoe and the world cakes.

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PATTERNS MAY NEED TO BE ENLARGED. YOU CAN INSERT A PATTERN INTO YOUR WORD PROCESSOR TO SIZE IT.

Pattern 1:
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Pattern 2
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