Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and today we're making a baby shower cake
a big pregnant belly and when you cut into the cake it will reveal to your friends and
family whether you're having a boy or a girl.
What a beautiful, fun way to announce the gender of your baby.
The first thing we need to do is make the cake and for that you will need some flour,
baking powder, sugar, eggs, oil, milk, margarine or butter, vanilla and some blue (or pink)
food colouring.
Add the baking powder to the flour and whisk that together to aerate it.
And then in your other bowl add in your sugar ...milk... oil eggs... and vanilla.
Whisk that on high speed.
I'll put all the recipe quantities on the howtocookthat.net website for you in grams
and ounces and cups and I'll link to that below.
Once it is fluffy then add in blue or pink food colouring depending if you're having
a boy or a girl.
And then spoon in the flour into the mixing bowl and mix on low speed until it is just
combined.
Spread half of that mixture in a tray, right the way out to the edges.
And then for the other half we want to use a round cake tin a bowl that fits on top of
that to give us the rounded belly shape.
Line and grease both of those and add the cake batter.
Then bake those in the oven.
To keep the candy in the middle from getting sticky from the cake and frosting, we are
going to make a chocolate container.
So just spread some white chocolate onto some acetate, I am using a chocolate transfer sheet
but you can just use plain acetate if you don't have one of these.
Lift it up to make the edges straight.
Then leave it until it is just starting to thicken up.
You'll need to keep lifting it to check that because you want it flexible but not too runny.
And then just put it inside a cookie cutter so that it makes it nice and round.
You can see here the acetate is overlapping but I made the chocolate just a little bit
shorter so it didn't overlap.
Now you just want to close the gap using a bit of extra chocolate.
Once it is set take the chocolate out of the ring and peel off the acetate.
So now we have a nice round cylinder of chocolate to put our lollies (candy) in.
Spread out some more chocolate and once that is staring to set we are just going to cut
out a circle out of that using the same cookie cutter for a lid.
Once your cake is cooled you want ot level them and trim off the edges.
Now because of the blue food colouring what would look golden brown looks really dark
brown so we don't want any of that on the cake.
Mix up a batch of buttercream and colour that to the same blue as the cake.
And now we have the tray cake, the rounded bowl and the round tin all trimmed.
Take your cookie cutter and cut a hole in the centre of the round cake.
Add that cake on top of the tray one down one end and cut the hole through to the cake
board.
Add some buttercream and then put that ring of cake into place.
Then place the two circles that you've just cut out on the top there and trim the top
of the cake off.
Trim down and around shaping the side of the cake and repeat that on the other side of
the cake.
And repeat that on the other side.
Out of the leftover piece cut another circle and add that to the one that was cut out of
the tray, because the one that was cut out of the round cake will have been thicker.
Now cut two smaller circles and place them on top.
Unstack all of that and add the buttercream underneath each one and layer the circles
back on top.
With this top one, I'm just going to trim it a little flatter on the belly side and
push it down a bit and then add the two smaller circles on top of that.
Add in the chocolate circle into the centre of the belly then fill it up with blue candy
or pink candy.
And add your chocolate circle on top like a lid.
Cover that whole thing in buttercream and then put the bowl cake upside down on top
for your round belly.
Now using a serrated knife smooth off the sharp edges.
You don't want to take a lot off here, just shave a tiny bit off each corner.
And also, I'm just going to shave a tiny bit off the top fo the belly.
At this stage of pregnancy the baby tends to sit a bit lower so the top of the belly
is a little bit flatter and the bottom of it is a bit rounder.
Not a lot, just a little bit.
Cover the whole cake in your buttercream.
And then I've shown you my secret for smoothing off a rounded cake before - but just to show
you again, take some acetate and let it bend around the cake and run it up around the edges.
Continue to do that smoothing it until it is even without any lumps - except for that
huge belly bump in the middle.
We want to make the dress to come around the belly and to drape down.
So I'm going to put some buttercream along the bottom edge so there isn't a sharp drop
off so that it's smooth.
Roll out some fondant for the skin and then we want to make one edge really thin so that
when we add it, we don't end up with a line along the tummy.
Place the fondant over the top and lift and smooth the fondant down on the edges.
Then just smooth it around and we can see there on the belly it's so thin that it's
not leaving us with a sharp line.
Use a pizza cutter to take off the majority of the excess fondant.
Then use a knife to trim it closer and then shave off a tiny bit more.
Roll out some red fondant.
Now you can make the dress any colour you like.
Once you've rolled that out, just grab a pizza cutter and cut a strip and we are going to
place this across the top of the dress because I want to do layers like ruffles across the
top there.
Place the strip on an angle across and smooth it down and trim it at the belly and around
the edge.
Cut another strip and this time fold over just the top edge and push it down, smooth
it down and place that overlapping the first strip.
By folding that bit over it just makes it sit up a bit like a ruffle.
And do the same on the other side.
Continue to add more strips until the boobs are completely covered.
Roll a rectangle of red and cut the length to the length you want the dress to be.
Add a silicone texture mat or a lace mold over the bottom end of the dress and press
down firmly and when you lift it off you get a pattern left on the dress.
Move it across and repeat it so it looks like lace at the bottom edge.
And if your pattern has a definite edge like mine just use a knife to trim around it so
that the edge matches the lace.
Lay the fondant over the cake and then pinch up the bottom of the dress so it looks like
ruffles in the fabric that are flowing down . Keep shifting that, just use your finger
to lift it up to arrange those ruffles and keep going until you're happy with it and
then tuck under the sides of the dress down the bottom.
Smooth around the top edge using your little finger then trim off the excess fondant from
the sides.
At the top edge there just use some scissors to cut off some of the exces, not all the
way, just enough that we can see what we are doing and it just makes it easier to do the
next step.
Now use a knife to trim it along, pulling the fondant up as you go so you can see if
you are applying the right amount of pressure, you just want to cut through this top layer
not the rest of the dress that you have made.
Then place a snake of fondant across the join and trim that at each end.
Now in the centre you can do whatever you like, I'll show you a couple of options.
One thing you can do is make a little bow.
Just make a couple of loops out of the fondant, then wrap one end around the middle there
and then place that in the centre of the dress.
Or you could make a rose, I am using a cheap little cutter that I got off Ebay, I showed
you this in the gadgets video the other week.
But this time instead of just cutting it and rolling it, I'm going to make it a little
bit finer by flattening out the edges of the petals using a rounded tool.
Fold that in half, take off the paper and then just roll it up pushing the petals outward
as you go, so that you end up with a pretty little rose.
Make a little indent for where that is going to sit and add it into place in the middle
of the dress.
If only sewing real dresses was that easy.
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