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!

 

 

 





 



The Rose Cake

First off, I only have one picture of this cake.  And, to make things worse, I took it with my cheap cell phone.  I finished this very late in the evening and dashed off to get it to my good friend's house as it was for her daughter's First Holy Communion early the next morning.  I forgot to take a picture with my camera, since I was in such a hurry but, since my computer had totally crashed weeks ago and I lost my camera software, I'm not sure I would have been able to get it on  the computer anyway (since I'm not even sure where the box with the software is right now so I can reinstall it).  So, to recap last week, my husband was out of town, my computer wasn't working, my cell phone was having issues, and, well, you get the idea.  Crazy week.  So here is the one picture I *did* get.  I took a picture with my cell phone because one of my sisters asked me to send her a pic when I was done.  And, also, I wanted to send a shot of the cake to my brother and sister-in-law because my niece is making her First Holy Communion in two weeks and I'm doing a very similar cake for her.

 

 

This is the ever-popular rose cake from i am baker.   Honestly, this is the first cake I have made using this technique.  After watching some YouTube clips, I had made a small cake earlier in the week to practice on.  I removed the layers from the pans and placed them far back on the counter to cool.  Unfortunately, it wasn't far enough.  As I sat typing an email two rooms away from the kitchen, my 2yo approached eating a giant chunk of the cake.  So, essentially, the dog toddler ate my homework.  (And, apparently, the lazy susan lower cabinet is a nice step stool for a toddler.)  Add that to the list of things from my crazy week. 

 

I'll post better pictures next time I make the cake, which will actually be for another First Holy Communion this weekend.   See you soon!