Baptism Cake

I have never enjoyed making a cake as much as I did this one. Oh, if only I had had more than one little girl! This was for a baby girl’s baptism last weekend–and I was pretty much given a license to do just about anything I wanted to with it, just make it girly…add roses and a cross and the inscription.

I was a little worried about the cross. I don’t know “Cross Etiquette”…is there one particular cross that is for one particular church? You know, I didn’t want to put a Lutheran cross on a Methodist cake!! But when I looked online for cross ideas, I found this one. It’s kind of Celtic with it’s swirls–but have you ever seen anything so girly? It looked like a piece of ribbon–and I had to use that one!

It was my first attempt at making sugar roses–those things are super fun…a bit on the time consuming part and holy cow…are they delicate. I always laugh on the cake shows when they say they only need 20 sugar flowers, but they are making 50. I just thought they weren’t very careful….no—these babies shatter at the slightest pressure. But they were so cool!

I’m not the best photographer in the world…and I wish the pictures were better–but to date, this is my favorite cake!