Horizontal Ruffle Cake for a Baby Shower

I was so excited to create a variation of a ruffle cake for one of my favorite people...ever.  My dear friend is expecting her second child.  A girl no less.  So excited to meet that little one.  Her baby shower was pink and very much her style.  This was the cake I made for her.

As you can see, it was a two tier Swiss Meringue Buttercream ruffle cake.  This time the ruffles were smaller and horizontal rather than the more common vertical ruffles.  I used a natural bourbon vanilla buttercream which gave it an off white color and finished it off with a large fondant flower.  Feminine, sweet, and quite fitting for the occasion.

I also made large cookie favors for the guests.  I didn't want to go with the old standby rattles, bibs, onesies and other quintessential baby shower items, so I went with a feminine look and feel and incorporated the font and tiny hearts reflected on the invitations. 

I really loved the maternity dress form on the cookie.  It was just "baby" enough without being too cutsy or generic.  Just like my dear, sweet friend.

Thanks for checking in.  Hope you like this latest ruffle cake.

Ruffles and a Rag Doll

Okay, okay, I know it may be getting old to some...but here I go again posting a ruffle cake. 



This little gem was a first birthday cake for a sweet baby girl named Ayla.  Ayla's mom sent me a photo of her favorite rag doll to replicate as the cake topper. 

I thought she was super cute.  I stayed as true to the actual doll as possible, only losing small details due to scale.  She was fun to mold.

I loved the hand cut and detailed name plaque too...if I do say so myself ;o)



This ruffle cake was made with the oh so silky, oh so lovely Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  I don't have the occasion to work with this buttercream very often, but every time I do, I wonder how it is that I don't use it exclusively.  So much more sophisticated than your average American Buttercream.  We'll see.....maybe I will just make the switch!

Hope you like this rendition of the oh so sweet ruffle cake.

Flour Girl

Buttercream Ruffles for Your Friday

Well hello there....

Thanks for being here.  I'm so glad you stopped by, and I think you will be too.

As promised, I have a great new Ruffle cake to share with you.  I have to say that this cake may be my new favorite.  I know I am fickle, and I probably change my mind too often, but this week...this is my all time favorite cake.

Why?  Well for a couple of reasons....

First off, the color combo was fab.  My favorite shades of my favorite hues.....
Lavender, Ivory and plum-ish, wine-ish, burgundy....ish???
LOVE

Plus, the style just happens to coincide with my own personal style preference.  This doesn't happen all that often, so when it does....I die over it.  I love it when that happens.  Also. if you keep up with my projects, you may notice that I prefer to use fondant.  I just like the finish, I love that you can heavily color it without worrying about affecting the taste or dying the teeth of those who eat it.  I love the versatility you have with texture that buttercream just can't always allow.  But, this is the ultimate exception.  I love that this design had a smooth crisp finish on the upper two tiers and the texture and lightness of the ruffles at the bottom.  With a focal point being a single large sugar bloom...this is right up my alley. 
LOVE

Lastly, you just about always win me over with ruffles.  Ruffles of any kind.  As established previously here....they are my fave.
LOVE

So, here are a couple shots of my absolute all time favorite cake. (at least for the time being ;-D )

Isn't she pretty????  I love her.....

There's that sugar flower.  The color of the flower was intended to match the tablecloths used.  I was a little nervous about the final color because I had seen the swatch for the tablecloths just once and was coloring by memory.  I think it panned out just fine.  This cake was for a large engagement party of 220 guests.  WOW!  I can't wait to see what the wedding will be like! 

The decor as well as the cake was inspired by the bride-to-be's party dress.  We decided to have a gold center to the sugar flower to incorporate some gold accent in a subtle way because the bodice of her dress had gold beading.  Her dress was iridescent lavender with pick-ups in the skirt.  Since they wanted to stick with an all buttercream cake, we went with ruffles to emulate the pickups on the cake.  This is a three tier cake serving 100 and we did the remaining servings in kitchen cakes.  These are smart cookies!  A huge money saver without losing any of the presentation. 

I love this cake, and I hope you do too!

Flour Girl

Ode to Ruffle Cakes...

Oh ruffle cakes….how I love thee….

Ruffle cakes are everywhere lately….I do mean EVERYWHERE.  But I don’t care.  I love them each and every time I see them.  They "fancy-up" a regular old buttercream cake in a jiffy.  So pretty, so frilly…so girlie!

I am so looking forward to creating another buttercream ruffle cake this weekend for an engagement party.  So, to get into the spirit of all things ruffle, here are a few of the ruffle cakes I have created in the last year or so…

Tiered Cakes

Mini Cakes

BIG Cakes



And down right Girlie-Girl cakes!

LOVE them.  They are my FAVE!  Stay tuned for another one coming your way next week!

Enjoy your holiday weekend people....

Flour Girl