Today's cake was for another one of my coworkers (the same one who ordered my Eagle's Cake). Her little one K was being Christened and they needed a cake just as beautiful as her to celebrate. I started this by making my two layers of vanilla cake in a circle pan, and two layers of chocolate cake in a larger circle pan. Both cake batters were made with a little bit of orange flavoring through orange juice. While the cakes were cooling I spent my time making a few batches of buttercream. I make so much because I like to put the icing on cakes a little thick, or at least that is what my mom tells me to do and I listen! When I make icing I always let it sit in the fridge a little bit to firm up. Whipped icing is great, but when it sits in the fridge it makes it a little easier to mold onto a cake rather than slip off. Next I started making all of the decorations. I rolled out some fondant and used my fancy flower punch to punch our little pink and white flowers to put all over the cake and cross I was making. When making the cross I used some Strawberry Waffer Cookies, request from the buyer, and covered it with pink fondant and flowers. I held the flowers on with some dots of icing. I rolled out some more pink fondant and cut it into strips so that I could make a ribbon for both tiers of the cake and a pretty pink bow :). I used a letter press to write "God Bless Kaitlin!" on the bottom ribbon.
*As a random note, some people ask me what type of fondant I use because it tastes better than some others they have tried. I use Duff's brand Fondant. I did make my own for this cake but when I rolled it out, it cracked too much to put on the cake and I could not have that for little K. I will be using different fondant recipes to make my own fondant, but have not had the opportunity to try them out yet.*
Back to the cake...
I put the first layer of chocolate cake on a cake board and ontop of my turntable. I use a turntable to easily ice cakes. A layer of buttercream was put on top of the cake so the other chocolate layer could be placed on top. Once I covered the cake with icing I rolled out some white fondant and carefully covered the circle layers of cake and put it to the side. I did this whole process again with the vanilla cake layers. Once the tiers were covered in icing and fondant I put the pink ribbon around the bottom of each tier. I held the ribbon of fondant on with a little bit of water. Water helps the fondant stick together. I then placed the ribbon on as well. I finished with putting flowers everywhere! The final piece was the cross. I put some tooth picks in the bottom and placed the cross into the top of the cake.
Since I have not gotten cake boxes large enough to hold this cake as one, T was ok with the cake coming in two boxes and she was willing to put it together later rather than have two wider and shorter tiers. I am very lucky that she was willing to do this for me, as I am currently still looking into options for bigger boxes.
Enjoy :)
