lynndaviscakes

Using a flower cake pan that you can get at Michaels or JoAnns, make a white cake, frost with buttercream icing.  Outline the petals and center with blue berries and fill the rest with strawberries and you are finished.

I made these yesterday for a baby shower at work.  Twin girls that is brave parenting.  I could hardly keep up with my kids and they were 3 1/2 years apart.  The bear cake pan you can pick up at Michaels or JoAnn’s.  Frost the area under the diaper with buttercream first then lay white fondant over the area.  I added little flower sprinkles to the diapers.  I made one large batch of buttercream and colored it light pink so that both bears would match.

Betty Boop is hand painted on fondant.  If you are not a good artist you can still pull off a cake like this.  First find the picture you want to make.  Cut it out and lay it on the fondant.  Cut out the basic shape.  Then cut the individual parts of the cake, eyes and hair separately.  Place them on the fondant and with a diluted solution of coloring gel and clear vanilla extract draw in the lines.  Now all you have to do is to fill in the blanks.  Think of this like a coloring book image.  Adds some festive sprinkles are your are all set to surprise everyone with your cake.

One place to get some great character pans are at Goodwill, Salvation Army, Garage Sales or Flea Markets.  Most people buy the pans for a special birthday party and then never use them again so they are given to thrift shops or put in the garage sale for pennies on the dollar.  I have found some great vintage pans, Charlie Brown, full size Mickey Mouse, Hello Pony and this Big Bird pan to name a few.  If you are starting out doing cakes and cupcake this is a great place to start picking up pans for cupcake, holiday cakes and don’t forget cake carriers.