Precious Cargo Baby Shower

Precious Cargo Baby Shower
Precious Cargo Baby Shower Precious Cargo Baby Shower Precious Cargo Baby Shower Precious Cargo Baby Shower

Our cousin is having a baby boy! Immediately upon hearing the news many months ago, I told her that my gift to her would be the cake for her baby shower & just tell me the theme. I was so excited when she said the theme was going to be antique planes & “Precious Cargo”! And the colors of red & teal are two of my absolute favorite, & also one of my favorite combinations.

Not content with just having a topper sitting on the cake, I wanted the plane to be flying! The baby’s name IS “Jett”, so it needed to be flying! I had to have some help with this as I couldn’t get one to work that wasn’t too heavy. My dear friend & awesome cake artist Miguel Guerrero of Mad Mike’s Cakes came to my rescue & created the plane out of wafer paper! Yes, wafer paper! The body is rice krispy treats, & the front & propeller are gumpaste, but everything else is wafer paper.

The antique suitcase bottom tier is a strawberry lemonade cake with fondant & gumpaste decor, with edible image luggage stickers & tags. The middle tier is a red velvet cake with teal-colored cream cheese buttercream filling, so even the inside matched the theme! The globe is a styrofoam ball covered in fondant & edible images. The board is covered with fondant which I hand-painted in a rich dark wood finish.

This one caused me some tears & frustration along the way, as many things went wrong. But I was so pleased with the end result, that it was all worth it! And the momma-to-be was absolutely thrilled, so that was the best reward of all!

Cakes ROCK!!! Christy Seguin, Austin, TX

44 Comments

Loooove this design!!! wow so playful and fun.. amazing cake!!

Dubey Cakes

So worth the tears hon, it’s fabulous

You must never limit your challenges, instead you must challenge your limits

Totally incredible!! Blown away by this masterpiece!! :-)

Julia Hardy

Wowser this is awesome, love it!

Cake A Chance On Belinda

Wow that is really excellent

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