Baby girl baptism cake

Hey guys, i hope you all had a great week. Just finished my last baking job for the month last night for my friend Melissa over at Days Filled with Love. Her GORGEOUS baby girl Olivia is getting baptized today :) go by and check out her blog when you get a chance!

She sent me a photo of the cake she had in mind and i recreated it as close as i could

Here are the steps to make this cake:


once you roll out and cover your cake with fondant, trim the excess and its ready for decorating. i explained how to do this in more detail in my air force cake. i dont want to be too redundant to regular readers lol

if you ever want to put a scallop shape on the top of a cake like this one, buy a cutter! lol this took me an eternity! they have a 6" one here if not this is how i did it: i drew the shape i wanted on the computer (I use auto CAD bc i'm used to it from designing at work). I printed it to scale on card stock paper and cut it out. i pressed that cutout into the fondant to get reference lines like this:

i cut the small radiuses with a straw, that way it would look perfect, unlike the outer curves that looked jagged at first. (i later went back and smoothed all those out bc it was making me crazy to see jagged lines lol)

i trimmed out the excess and began cutting the outer curves

ta-da! next up i added the silver dragees around according to the inspiration photo....you can buy them at specialty cake shops...if you live in miami i got them at Miles Cake and Candy Supplies
i stamped a little "O" in the center of the cross for Olivia :)

Here's the final product :)

Let me know what you think :)