Baby Shower Cake with Baby Stroller Topper
Recipe and step by step tutorial for a cute baby shower cake with a 3D fondant stroller topper and a 3D bow.
Prep Time30 minutes mins
Cook Time45 minutes mins
Decorating time3 hours hrs
Total Time4 hours hrs 15 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 1 six inches round cake
Calories: 5719.5kcal
Cake
- 360 g self-raising flour
- 360 g granulated sugar
- 360 g butter
- 6 eggs
- 90 ml milk
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Making the baby stroller topper and bow
Baking the cake
Preheat oven to 170 °Celsius.
Beat butter and sugar till soft and creamy for about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Fold in the sifted ingredients into the creamed mixture alternately with milk, starting and ending with flour.
Finally, add in vanilla extract and combine well. Pour batter into 3 greased and floured 6-inches round cake pans and bake for 45 to 50 minutes until the top of the cakes spring back when lightly pressed. The cakes are done when a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out without any wet batter.
Remove cakes from oven and let them cool completely before icing and decorating.
Baking time may vary slightly for larger cakes.
Once the cakes are completely cooled, level and fill each layer with buttercream and stack them together. Cover the stacked cake with a thin layer of buttercream. For added stability (since the baby shower cake is 6 inches high), insert a bubble tea straw right in the middle of the cake all the way down. Snip off any excess straw the the top. Make sure the straw is slightly below the cake level to avoid it portroding out of the cake when covered with fondant.
And then cover whole cake with white fondant. Trim the edges and smooth the sides.
Preparing the fondant
Prepare all the colors needed for the baby shower cake decoration.
For the pale yellow, mix 1 part of Satin Ice Yellow with 3 parts of white fondan.
For the bright yellow, use Satin Ice Yellow
For the pale green, mix Americolor Avocado green gel paste to white fondant
For dark green, mix Wilton Juniper green and a tiny hint of Satin Ice chocolate fondant to white fondant
For the dark brown, use Satin Ice chocolate fondant.
Adding the bow
First to go on the baby shower cake is the brown ribbon on the sides of the cake.
Measure the diameter of the cake. Cut out a strip of paper to match the diameter. Wrap it around the cake, about two thirds from the bottom of the cake.
Tape the ends to hold the strip in place.
Roll some chocolate fondant into a long strip. The length should be the same as the diameter of the cake. Cut out a long strip with a width of 1 inch.
Dust some icing sugar on the strip and roll it up loosely.
Using the paper strip on the cake as guide, apply some glue right above the paper strip and gently unroll the fondant strip, using the paper strip as a guide to ensure the fondant strip is placed in a level, straight line.
Tidying the fondant ribbon strip
To further tidy the position of the strip, use a ruler to push it up or down.
Use a fondant smoother to smoothen the strip and ensure it is well attached to the cake.
One the ribbon is done, cover the cake board. Apply some fondant glue or shortening to the cake board. Roll a long strip of white fondant and place it on the cake board all around the cake and trimmed the edges neatly.
Attaching the cake border
Roll fondant balls in random sizes, in the following colors and attach them to the cake in the same order - brown, dark green, dark yellow, pale green & pale yellow. Attach the balls with shortening or fondant glue.
Attaching the bow
Attach the bow to the baby shower cake with fondant glue. Since the bow is heavy, it would need support until the glue dries completely. For this purpose, I used ‘support’ (two fondant containers that happen to be of the right height to allow the bow to be rested on) to hold the bow in place while it was drying. You can use any other support as suitable.
Adding the baby stroller cake topper
Once the bow dries firmly in place, poke the baby stroller topper on the baby shower cake. Attach tiny pale yellow flowers on the centers of each wheel with shortening for added decoration.
And finally, attach a yellow ribbon all around the cake board.
Calories: 5719.5kcal | Carbohydrates: 628.8g | Protein: 82.2g | Fat: 326g | Saturated Fat: 195.7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 18.8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 86.6g | Trans Fat: 11.9g | Cholesterol: 1765.1mg | Sodium: 3894.5mg | Potassium: 943.4mg | Fiber: 8.7g | Sugar: 366.7g | Vitamin A: 10575IU | Calcium: 570.6mg | Iron: 8.5mg