The Making of a Baby-Crib Baby Shower Cake
This is a baby shower cake I made as a last minute order. What that means is that it is not a difficult cake to make. It has a crib with a baby in it. Below, I will be showing you the various steps on how this cake was made. You can see other views of this cake here.
THE PROCESS:
(1) The first step is to make the frames for the crib. They should be made about a week in advance. I have a post here on how to make bed frames for cribs. You will need to change the dimensions used in that post as this crib is a lot smaller. The dimensions of this crib is 4″ x 3″ x 3″.
(2) The next step is to make the baby. I used a silicon mold for this. This mold can be bought online on ebay or Amazon. You will need to brush the hair with a darker color and paint the lips pink after unmolding the baby.
(3) Next, make the purple flowers. I used a medium rose petal cutter and placed a smaller one on it. A silver pearl sugar was placed in the middle. The flowers could be made before hand and dried in flower molds. TIP: The flowers could be dried in empty egg crates in the absence of small flower molds.
(4) Next, cover the cake board with white fondant. I have a post here on how I cover my cake boards.
(5) Next, drape the cake with white fondant and place the cake on the cake board.
(6) Next, color some fondant powder blue and cut it into 1 inch strips. Use the side of a brush to thin out the edges of the strips and create ruffles. Brush the cake with some water or vodka and stick the blue fondant strips in layers on the cake starting from the bottom of the cake to about 2/3rd of the cake.
(7) Next, finish the ruffles with some thinned out white strips of fondant.
(8) Cut out a 1 cm strip of blue fondant. Run a stitching wheel along the edges and stick it to the top of the cake to cover the top of the last ruffle. Use some leftover fondant strip to create a bow. This will be attached to the front of the cake later on.
(9) Next, build the crib. To do this, place a slab of fondant the same dimensions as the crib on top of the cake. Build the crib using the tutorial here. Lastly, Cover the bottom of the crib with some white fondant.
(10) Place the baby in the crib.
(11) Next, create the duvet. Cut out a rectangle of green fondant and use a stitching wheel and ruler to draw intersecting diagonal lines on it. Finish the duvet my cutting out frills at both ends with a pizza cutter.
(12) Drape the duvet on the crib.
(13) Lastly, stick the bow to the front of the cake along with a flower. Decorate the cake board with some flowers. That’s how this cake was made. Happy baking!
Terry Adido is passionate about showing people how easy it is to recreate restaurant quality meals in the comfort of their kitchens. With a style of cooking he refers to as Afro-European Fusion, his meals are influenced greatly by French and Italian Cuisine with a West African twist. If you love good food, you are in for the ride of your life.
This is really lovely Terry
Thanks Princess
Terry you are so creative. Can you please teach me how to apply butter cream on my cake?it doesn’t look very neat whenever I want to do it.
Thanks. You can find a tutorial on that here.
Pls i really want 2 learn 4rm u hw can i get in touch with u,i need 2 c it ma self.u r jst 2 wonderful
Thanks Bukola. Unfortunately I do not no one on one training. You can learn a lot from this website. Just click this link.
Thanks Terry
You are welcome Lara.
This is so cute, I feel like cuddling the “baby”.!
Thanks Janet.
Thank u so much this Baby crib is lovely
You are welcome Amara.
thanks, this is beautiful
Thanks Eunice.
Thanks for sharing, so detailed, pls keep it up. Expecting more and more and more. Thumbs up for you Terry
Thanks Deby.
Hi Terry…really a big fan of yours.learning from you all the way.more grace for wisdom n creativity. Please do you have a tutorial on basic fondant. Thank u.
Thanks. No I do not.
Wow!!! Terry, you are soooo good. I’m a big fan of urs and always looking forward to seeing lots of of your creativity. I have learnt a lot and still learning. Thanks a lot for sharing your creativity with us. God bless the work of your hands. Keep it rolling. Lol. Nice!
Thanks a lot Charity. It’s really nice hearing from you.
Hello Terry, thank you for being a blessing to me. Your tutorials are simple and comprehensive. Looking forward to seeing you one day so I’ll thank you in person.
You are welcome Camila.