Another Baby Shower Cake!

Here is my newest creation, a clotheline themed cake for a baby shower my sister-in-law was hosting for a friend. This cake was extremely fun to make and I got to try out some more new techniques and it even forced me to get a little inventive! I'd originally planned on coloring the dowels up top (that make up the poles for the clothesline)brown with a marker but then I couldn't find the brown one so I decided to try to cover the things in fondant (like you would with modeling chocolate). After a few tries they turned out pretty cool! This is all starting to get a lot easier with practice, and what once used to take me 2 days to complete, I was able to do in one afternoon/evening! The only thing is that we're left with SO much cake at home... after all the trimming and leveling is done I have mounds and mounds of leftover cake and I just can't even stand to look at it, blegh! ;)

This is the cake's car ride over. Yes, on the floorboard of my car, lol. Some day if I actually get really good at this and start making bigger cakes this probably won't work so well... But for now it'll do!

The finished product once I hung the onesie and made sure nothing had fallen off during the very bumpy ride... courtesy of crappy Oklahoma roads.

My favorite part of the cake. I was so tickled when I found those itty bitty little clothespins!

So anyway... tada!!! :) I think I'll get some dummy cakes soon so I can work on bigger things, like elegant gumpaste flowers, etc.