A Beatrix Potter Baby Shower Cake - The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies





The theme I was given was a Beatrix Potter Baby Shower and the book was, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Beatrix Potter is the illustrator and writer behind the Peter Rabbit series of books. I absolutely love her work and I was excited to take one of her stories and turn it into cake. The design I came up with for the cake was my interpretation of the story - the top tier showed one of the baby bunnies sleeping under the lettuce plant after filling his belly up with lettuce (food coma or as Beatrix Potter called it, soporific) and the bottom tier showed farmer Mr. McGregor's window (the one the Flopsies used to peek in through) and I added mommy and daddy, Flopsy and Benjamin Bunny, walking along the farmers home.
A week went by in trying to fight off the flu and now I was on a tighter deadline. With my head in a fog, and a flu that just stuck to me like glue in what seemed to take forever to get rid off, I was now on a mission to get this cake done. And it never fails....Why is it that when you need something, you can't find it but when you don't need it, they're everywhere? I had to go all over town to 3 cake supply stores to find cake dummies in the sizes I wanted. All I wanted was a 6 x 4 inch round and 2, 8 x 4 inch round dummies! Nothing complicated, nothing out of the ordinary. Then, make another run to Home Depot to grab a pale of Patch 'N Paint
Sounds easy right? Well, real cakes are heavy and stay put when you ice them. Cake dummies on the other hand, are really light and move all over the place. I rolled up packing tape to the bottom of the cake dummies and onto a board to help them stay grounded and just held the top of the dummy down with one hand while I iced and turned the cake with the other hand. What a challenge that was! The Patch 'N Paint
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It looks like buttercream without the extra effort and ingredients to actually make the buttercream. I'm really loving this stuff.

For the cobblestone base, I rolled out balls of white fondant and smoothed them one by one next to each other around the board. After it dried, I dusted it over with an assortment of 5 petal dusts to give it some depth and the illusion of a real cobblestone floor. What's an English garden without cobblestone?

The baby bunny was hand molded out of marshmallow fondant that I mixed with Tylose to help it dry harder and faster. I used scissors to snip the fur pattern around his body.

I cut out the lettuce leaves free hand (didn't have a cutter that was large enough for these) and veined them using a large orchid viener. They were originally made in white then dusted with yellow and green petal colors to look like lettuce.

The larger lettuce head is what I assembled with the leaves I had made a day prior then at the last minute, I decided to add a couple small ones along the base of the cake. I used rose petal cutters to cut these since they were smaller and dusted them the same way as the large one, assembled them and let them dry overnight.

The fondant name plaque was hand cut from a paper template I made and I added the ribbed texture on it by pressing down a skewer every 1/8 inch across it. Upper Case

well, each leaf is actually a 5 petal flower molded and pinched in the middle to look like a cluster of leaves. I wanted to illusion of leaves but without the work of having to make each and every single leaf - cool right?


I used 5 different colors for the leaves to create some depth and made well over 200 of these blossoms for both trees.

They came out exactly how I wanted them to look. I absolutely love how they turned out.


Aren't they just cute walking along the cobblestone path!
And here it is...3 pages in the June 2013 issue of CakeCentral Magazine (Volume 4, Issue 6). What an honor and an adventure that I would do all over again in a heartbeat.

A special thank you to Bryan Ramsay Photography for making the time for my last minute request and for taking the beautiful photographs that made the cake magazine worthy!
We had to wait quietly for 3 whole months to find out whether the cake made it into the magazine or not. It was torturous not being able to talk or share the photographs with everyone but now, I can finally show them off. Hope you enjoy them.
6 comments:
parabens pelo trabalho.
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Hi--found your site when looking for ideas for reindeer--I see the handmade mold you have used to make reindeer on the red two layer cake--I wanted to ask before I buy if you used anything else to make the reindeer stand up ie on top of cake??? I am wanting to make this for a granddaughter who specially requested such a cake for Christmas this year--I will wait to hear prior to purchasing--Thank you JusSaySue@yahoo.com
For Rudolf, I attached skewers to the back of his body using Royal Icing. I described how I decorated the cake more in detail here: http://sugarsweetcakesandtreats.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-reindeer-cake.html?utm_source=BP_recent
Beautiful job! Congratulations!
Thank you Jacklyn =D
It's so beautiful... and the baby rabbit is so cute :)
Looking forward to your next post.
Happy caking et decorating! :)
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