BABY SHOWER CAKE

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 A SENIOR, MAKES WONDERFUL GRADES, A VARSITY GOALIE AND CAPTAIN OF HIS SOCCER TEAM, SINCE HE WENT INTO THE  9TH GRADE.. HE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED TO MIAMI U. THIS FALL! HE LOVES COMPUTERS AND HAS CHOSEN COMPUTER SCIENCE AS HIS COLLEGE MAJOR NEXT YEAR. HE CREATED HIS GAME WEB SITE(ACTUALLY, IT IS THANKS TO HIM THAT I LEARNED TO MAKE MY WEB SITE). Then he revised the Air Force website for Miami U. while in college. Now he is a 2nd Luetenant and I am very proud of him!

NEEDED:
Horseshoe Cake Pan (one end of the cake will be discarded)
8" round cake Pan
Ball Pan Cake: use only 1 side of pan
#2103-1139 Carousel Separator set Two - 10" Separator Plates With 4 Pillars (The ones shown are no longer available). You could replace them with baby blocks glued together.
I found the "saying" that 'sprung' my idea in the book: "What do you say?" I love that book!

ROYAL ICING DAISIES-MY WAY:
Premade or:
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 (Mold here) Using -Baby Candy Mold: Paint coating chocolate of appropriate colors into baby candy mold, fill with one solid color; chill and unmold.

CARDBOARDS FOR 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. Wrap with FDA fancy foil. This is more sturdy. Cut up boxes aren't nearly as strong as regular cake cardboards, also.

FOIL: FOR COVERING CARDBOARDS
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 ice 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) on with tip 3 black icing. Fill in tip 14 stars.

3. 8-INCH CAKE: 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

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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