Cake Decorating Ideas

This is an old fashioned butter cake with butter cream icing. I used a 12 inch round pan for the bottom (2-layer) and an 8 inch round pan for the top (2-layer). After the cake was cool, I iced and stacked both layers. Once the butter cream icing had dried completely, I began to attach the blue and green gumballs using royal icing so they would stay in place.

I used pre-made fondant in green and blue. I rolled it and cut out various sizes of round fondant cutters and attached them to the cake by lightly moistening the back of the circles and gently pressing them in place on the cake. I then cut out letters spelling the baby’s name and attached them in the same fashion. Using royal icing again I began layering the white gumballs (bubbles) into place. I used 2 sizes to make it appear like bubbles. I put 3 small rubber duckies on the bottom layer, gluing them in place with the royal icing. Then
lastly I placed the “Momma” ducky with 3 more babies on the top of the cake.

I was inspired to make this for a friend’s baby shower because she has collected rubber duckies for many years and she absolutely loved the cake. She still thanks me to this day several months after Robert was born.

This was actually a fairly easy cake to decorate. The most difficult part was finding the correct colors and sizes of gum balls. I think a good alternative to the gum balls would have been to make the bubbles out of
fondant. They would have probably held better to the cake since they wouldn’t have been as heavy.

Decorating cakes has been a passion of mine for years since my Mother first took me with her to cake decorating classes. I have kept up with decorating and love to do it as well as I remember my Mom fondly and know she would have been proud of my accomplishments.

First Name: Alison
City-State: Kingsland, GA