Baby Einstein

Another kids themed cake to my collection :-) Now, although there was no Baby Einstein when I grew up, I've still enjoyed watching it - Thanks to my nephew and niece in Dallas. I somehow like to watch all the fun stuff that they watch. I guess there is a little kid inside all of us or maybe like some say, I still have to ' grow' up ;-)

Anyways, to the cake now. This is a birthday cake for a 1 yr old baby boy. A front and back view of the cake below. The bottom tier has an underwater theme and the middle tier is land themed (for lack of a better term) and each have the corresponding Baby Einstein characters.


Here is a picture of all the Baby Einstein puppet/characters made for the cake. I didn't have time to shoot the figures individually so I had to crop them out and resize, hence the quality of the picture.


The famous Baby Einstein caterpillar that I made for the top tier along with the label. I really wanted to get the logo right and wondered if I should practice it first (really, drawing on paper and on fondant are different things). But I am always rushing to the last minute when I make big cakes like this. So I had to do directly on the cake and I was quite happy with the result.


Along with the Baby Einstein characters, I made other accents for the underwater tier and here they are. There were more shells and other small details but couldn't crop all of 'em. You can view them in the full cake picture.

Sesame Street cake

This weekend I did a big Sesame Street themed cake for a 1 yr old. It is a 3 tiered cake built with 14, 10 and 6 inches round cakes. I picked 3 popular characters from Sesame Street and made cake toppers all out of marshmallow fondant. I took the colors red, blue and yellow from these 3 characters and used it for the fondants to cover the 3 tiers.

The top floor is occupied by baby Big Bird and his 'crib' is decorated with lots of stars. It was a personal request that I use lots of stars and make the cake very colorful.


Baby Cookie Monster is on the second floor, happily eating his chocolate chip cookies. This cake is decorated with colorful gifts all around.


Baby Elmo is on the first floor with his feeding bottle. I used the Sesame Street sign board to display the birthday baby's name. This tier is all about a beautiful, sunny day at Sesame Street :)


The back view of the cake showing all the decorations and the actual sesame street board.

Most people do cake toppers with gum paste (This is a mixture of sugar, starch and gelatin. It's what many of those realistic looking flowers, fruits and ribbons are made of on a wedding cake), which is technically "edible" but once it is dried, it becomes rock solid and not really "edible". So I opted to make these out of marshmallow fondant. It is a bit of a challenge doing figures out of marshmallow fondant due to its texture and the fact that working with sugar is not easy. But it is worth the time and effort to see the kids very excited as they bite off Big Bird's beak, eyes, head etc. made out of fondant. Yeah, while the adults enjoyed a piece of cake, the kids were fighting over Elmo's feeding bottle and Cookie Monster's chocolate chip cookies :) I sooo wanted them myself :D

Watch the Sesame Street cake toppers: