A First Holy Communion Cake

So last week I posted that a friend of a friend had asked me, via text by my friend, to make the same rose cake for her daughter's First Holy Communion this weekend.  (Was that confusing enough? ; )  When I actually spoke with the woman on the phone and said, "So, you want the exact same cake?" her response was not what I expected.  "Actually, I saw this cake on Pinterest and was wondering if you could do that."  Gulp.  I've seen cakes on Pinterest.  They're usually gorgeous and very detailed.  I mean, that's why people post them, right?  She sent me the picture and I studied it.  And studied it.  And studied it some more.  I called her back and said that I thought I could pull of something similar.  It would be great learning opportunity for me.  The most important thing I learned was to store the cake out of the reach of my toddler.  Remember what happened with my practice rose cake?  Yes and that's why you can see it here in the top of my pantry.

 

 

Once covered in fondant, you have to set the cakes aside for awhile before you dowel them (put the support sticks in).  That's why I needed a safe place to put them for awhile.  I loosely covered them in plastic wrap and left the pantry open in order to keep fresh air flowing.  I didn't want the cake to absorb stale pantry air.  Going back to the dowels, I only doweled the bottom layer, using inflexible drinking straws.  The thought of using wooden dowels in a cake does not appeal to me.  I'm afraid of splinters in the cake, so inflexible drinking straws is a good alternative that a lot of people use.  To dowel the layers together for transport, I'm guessing that you would have to use a wooden dowel.  I haven't looked into that as I haven't needed to yet. 

 

 

So here is the finished product.

 



 

 

 

My favorite part of this cake is the bow.  This was really so easy to make. 

 

 

 

 

Here is an excellent tutorial for making not only this type of fondant bow, but also a Tiffany bow of fondant.  Seriously, ANYONE can do this!  It is that easy.  Give it a shot.

 

Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there!