Monkeying Around with Fondant

Another baby shower! (I'm sensing a theme here.) This time I needed to put a monkey on the cake, and since I have a four- and nearly two-year-old, the monkey I know most intimately is Curious George. A few cakes ago when I'd bought black fondant, the package also came with brown and light brown fondant, so I decided to try it again.

I found a cute coloring sheet for George and used it as the template. I cut each of his body parts into a template piece, then put it over the brown fondant. Then I cut each piece out with an exacto knife and pieced it back together on the cake. Then I traced the entire picture with black frosting and created his eyes and smile with frosting, too.

I'm still not sold on fondant...maybe it's because I don't know much about it, but I prefer butter cream.


The other cake was the baby's initials.

Car Cake

My assignment for this baby shower cake was to match a "car" theme in the nursery. (Not "Cars" the movie, just cars in general.) I decided to attempt a three-dimensional approach for the car, and used crushed up Oreos for the road.

Puppy Baby Shower Cake

These baby shower cakes were created to match an invitation.

Zebra Cake

More baby showers! This one was for a little boy, and he was to have a zebra picture in his room. The plaid and the zebra design came from the picture in his room.

Baby Carriage

Sometimes the baby showers at school require two cakes, and on this occasion the couple was having a baby girl. I was really pleased with the baby carriage, which was drawn free-hand.

Rattle Cake, Part Two

I liked the first rattle cake so much, I did another one shortly thereafter! This one is also for a baby girl, and the shower's colors were pink and brown. This is my favorite of the two rattle cakes. I really like the way the colors turned out!

Rattle Cake, Part One

This year there has been a slew of baby showers at my husband's school. It's meant big business for me! This is the first rattle cake I did for a couple who was having a baby girl.