Beautiful Baby Girl Bib Cake Recipes

BABY'S BIB CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Make, bake and cool cake as directed on box for two 8-inch or 9-inch rounds.
• Reserve 1 cup frosting for decorating. Place 1 cake layer, rounded side down, on serving plate. Spread with about 1/3 cup frosting. Place other layer, rounded side up, on top. Frost side and top of cake with remaining frosting. Make vertical lines on side of cake with decorating comb or tines of fork if desired.
• Tint 2/3 cup of the reserved frosting pink with 1 or 2 drops red food color. Place pink frosting in decorating bag with small writing tip #2. Pipe 2 circles around outer top edge of cake, about 1 inch apart, leaving 3-inch opening at top. Make loop design within circles.
• Tint remaining 1/3 cup frosting blue with 1 or 2 drops blue food color. Place blue frosting in decorating bag with writing tip #5; pipe outer border of bib. Pipe inner opening of bib about 3 inches in diameter; join circles with tie at top. Make small bows on bib and write desired message in bib opening. Pipe dots between bows with remaining pink frosting if desired. Store loosely covered.

BABY CAKE--IT'S A GIRL!

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Grease 1 1/2-quart ovenproof bowl (8 inches across top) with shortening; coat with flour (do not use cooking spray). Lightly grease 3 muffin cups in mini muffin pan.
• Make cake batter as directed on box. Pour batter into 3 mini muffin cups, filling two-thirds full; pour remaining batter into 1 1/2-quart bowl.
• Bake cupcakes 11 to 14 minutes, bowl 47 to 53 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Remove cakes from mini muffin cups and bowl; place rounded sides up on cooling racks. Cool completely, about 1 hour. If necessary, cut off rounded tops of cakes.
• Place bowl cake on tray, cut side down. Cut 1 mini cupcake in half from top to bottom. Place half of the mini cupcake cut side against one of the whole mini cupcakes; use toothpick to hold them together. Repeat with remaining cupcake and half cupcake. Use frosting to adhere cupcakes to bowl cake for booties, with half cupcakes facing out. Use toothpicks if necessary. Spread 1/3 cup frosting in thin layer over side and top of cake to seal in crumbs. Freeze cake 30 to 45 minutes to set frosting.
• Reserve 1/4 cup of the frosting in small bowl. Spread remaining frosting over cake, frosting more heavily on side of bowl cake with booties; this will be baby's diaper. To reserved 1/4 cup frosting, add 3 drops neon pink food color, stirring until well blended. Spread pink frosting on mini cupcakes.
• On work surface, roll out 1/4 cup of the white fondant to 1/8 inch, and cut shapes out for soles of booties; press onto cupcakes, using colored frosting as glue.
• Knead 6 drops neon pink food color into 1 cup of the fondant. On work surface, roll out to 1/8 inch into rectangle. Gently lift rectangle, and drape over cake across from booties to make blanket, making wrinkles and folds as you place the rectangle.
• Knead 3 drops neon pink food color into 1/4 cup of the fondant, and roll out to 1/8 inch onwork surface into long strip. Use pastry wheel to make scalloped edge. Gently place edging along end of blanket, using small amount of water to adhere fondant if necessary.
• Knead 3 drops neon pink food color into 1/4 cup of the fondant, and roll out to 1/8 inch on work surface. Use small canapé cutters or paring knife to cut out flower shapes as desired.
• Knead 1 drop neon green food color and 2 drops neon pink into 1/4 cup of the fondant to get bright orange, and roll out to 1/8 inch on work surface. Use small canapé cutters or paring knife to cut out small rounds as desired.
• Place small cutout shapes on blanket as desired, using small amount of water to attach. Remove toothpicks before serving. Store loosely covered.

BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL BIB CAKE

Steps:

• Cake:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Coat a 14 x 2 inch round cake pan with butter the dust with flour, shake out excess.
• With electric mixer, beat 1 box cake mix, and 1/2 melted ice cream, & eggs in a bowl for 3 minutes on medium speed. Scrape into a large measuring bowl. Repeat with the remaining and scrape in the pan with the rest. Be sure not to put more then 10 cups of prepared cake mix.(Unless you have an industrial mixer you can mix all in one step, or if you are cutting the recipe in half one step is all you need).
• Bake at 350°F for 60 minutes (be sure to turn pan for even baking) or until tooth pick comes out clean. Cool pan on wire rack 20 minutes. Cut 2 small triangle (2 x 3 1/2 x 4 inches this 4 inch side will have a rounded edge) out of cake along side the neck. Take note of picture.
• Save cut pieces for hubby since he won`t be going to the shower.
• Chambord Glaze:.
• Melt preserves and chambord just till soft and mix thoroughly.
• Pierce wholes throughout cake with a fork and spread chambord mixture over cake. Chill in refrigerator.
• Chocolate glaze:.
• Melt chocolate and butter in microwave just till melted and mix to blend.
• Spread a thin layer on over the chilled raspberry glaze, chill.
• Fondant:.
• Roll the fondant into a circle and place where the neck would be.
• Frosting:.
• In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, butter, shortening & liqueur on medium speed until light & creamy (2 min or so). On low speed, gradually beat in confectioners sugar, about 1 to 2 minutes. Remove some to pipe stars over the section as shown in picture. To the rest of the frosting add the raspberry preserves and chambord.
• Mix in food coloring of choice into the frosting. Add a light pink food coloring to all and set aside a 1/3. add a brighter pink to the remaining frosting and remove 1/2 set aside, and with the last add a vibrant pink or just more drops of pink.
• With color you will least use. Using tip # 7 Along the outer top rim of cake where the ruffle will go pipe a row of icing so the ruffle will be supported.
• Using color of your choice. Using tip # 125 or 127 start at the base a ruffle around the side of cake making row, around and overlapping slightly an other row, ending with a top ruffle which is piped over the row of icing and coming over the cake edges.
• Trim the border of the ruffle where it meets the piped stars, and trim between piped stars and fondant, and along the bottom of cake where sides meet the cake dish with color of choice. Using the same color make the bow. With fat side of tip #104 down at cake holding the bag sideways.
• Decorate cake with things of your choice (flowers, bottle, ducks, teddy bears, clowns) Dot the bow with frosting using tip # 2.
• Garnish with fresh raspberries. Refrigerate until ready to serve.