Thursday, July 23, 2009

Baby Block Cakes

Isn't this such a lovely vision of cake layers? It's the "before" picture of my latest baby block cake.This cake was Neopolitan: Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry Cake Layers with some Raspberry filling between the Vanilla and Strawberry. And the rest is Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream - yum! This flavor combination idea came from Martha Stewart's Wedding Cakes book.

The ball was 4 layers of lemon butter cake. And all other decorations were made out of sugarpaste.

I also pulled up some of my old baby block cakes. This one is from a couple years ago - it was for my sister's baby shower. It was also a Neopolitan Cake.
Ah Memories... this is one of my very early cakes from a few years ago - I must've spent about 10 hours on it and I think I only charged $40 for it. I think it was vanilla cake and marshmallow fondant.

ha ha - for some reason I used buttercream for some of the decorations over the fondant and I really should have ironed my tablecloth. Well, you gotta start somewhere! :-)
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11 comments:

  1. veggievixenJuly 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    they are so adorable! i like seeing the progression in your work. it really takes time to perfect. great work!

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  2. Baker's CakesJuly 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM

    I love the before picture of the neopolitan cake, yum! I'm loving how you pieced together the fondant on the ball, that must have been a trick!

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  3. BellaLovesPinkJuly 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    You've come a long way! Great work!

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  4. Brandy LJuly 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    What a gorgeous cake. I love all the different flavors and the big block cake! Awesome job!

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  5. Pink Little CakeJuly 24, 2009 at 11:09 AM

    I love the cake, the colors, the design and the yummy frosting!! ummm, great idea! thank you for sharing!

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  6. Torte decorateJuly 26, 2009 at 5:29 AM

    wonderful, you're very good!

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  7. UnknownJuly 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM

    Lovely cakes! I love the ball! I'm sure that must be difficult to do! Great job!

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  8. Coco Cake LandJuly 27, 2009 at 11:20 PM

    before and after are both fab. i would LOVE to have the before cake, sooo cute! :)

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  9. KatiecakesJuly 30, 2009 at 8:07 AM

    Oh! I love the innards of this cake! Looks so delicious!

    Katie xox

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  10. ShaniNovember 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM

    Hi about how much fondant did you use to cover the baby block cake? What were the dimensions and how many servings?

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  11. SweetThingsTONovember 8, 2009 at 6:41 PM

    Hi Shani,

    Sorry - I can't remember how much fondant I used for the 3 baby blocks cake - it was so long ago. But I'm pretty sure that each block was 5" x 5" x 5" - so I guess that might be 15 servings per cake depending on how big you slice it.

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