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First Birthday Cake: Baby Einstein Edition
Posted by: Liss
September 7th, 2009 >> Cakes, Chocolate, Specialty Cakes
My friend asked me to make her son’s first birthday cake and the theme was Baby Einstein. I have no children so I agreed, not knowing what that meant! She sent me a link to the party decorations so I knew what things looked like. Man, it was a lot of characters!! So, I enlisted the help of my wonderful mother to help me cut out all the animals since I would not be able to do it alone in any sort of reasonable amount of time. The top is the smash cake for the baby (who ended up not really smashing it, just playing with the frosting a bit…) and the middle layer is vanilla and the bottom is chocolate. I’ve been told the cake was a hit! 
I did a baby shower cake this weekend. I am SOOOO happy with how it came out! The mom to be originally wanted a pink monkey cake but I think this option came out so much prettier!! Everyone loved it and part of me wanted to keep it on my kitchen counter forever!! Alas, I had to bring it to the shower and share….
The cake is a plain white cake with fudge filling. Not my most exciting creation but still super yummy! Its covered in buttercream and then in marshmallow fondant. Can I just tell you how much of a pain it was to get white fondant brown?!? Yikes. I had to add cocoa powder and some of the fudge filling to get it right because it kept coming out the color of something in a baby’s diaper with just the brown food coloring… But it tasted yummy! How can you go wrong with MMF and fudge?!?!
This is my fifth fondant cake and my skills are greatly improving! So excited to do some more! Yay!!!
Close up of the rolled fondant roses
the insides of the cake
