I made a cake and a blanket for Nadia Laukkanen’s baby shower. First the cake! There wasn’t really a theme for the shower, but she is having a girl. I was looking for an idea and thought about some kind of princess cake. While looking at pictures and thinking about what I was going to give her as a gift, I thought of some Hello Kitty fabric I have. I searched for Hello Kitty cake pictures and found a great site with a template. DLTK has lots of great things and I’ve printed a lot of pages from the site in the past. The HK template is here. I made my favorite chocolate cake the night before the shower and let it sit all night. Tip: covering the bottom of the cake pan with some parchment cut to fit will keep the cake from sticking. Yes, I did that. The chocolate cake I make is very dense and was easy to cut. If you are using a cake mix or some other recipe that has a lot of crumb, you should freeze the cake before cutting it. Here is the template on top of the cake and I pulled the excess cake (Is there such a thing?) away as I cut it. I pulled gently to be sure that I had cut all the way through.

After cutting the head shape out, I transferred it to the decorative base. Isn’t it cute already?

I forgot to take a picture of this part, but it’s a very important step when dealing with a cake shape that has been cut out. Spread a very thin layer of frosting all over the cake to seal in the crumbs. It will keep you from spreading the crumbs into your decorations.

After the crumb coat, I spread a thicker layer of frosting over the cake. I used a 7-minute frosting recipe from Food Network. I wanted a WHITE frosting and my usual favorite is a little yellow. The decorations are cut out from foam.

For her gift, I made a no-sew fleece blanket. This was super easy and took about two hours. It’s just two pieces of fleece fabric knotted together.

I also made a little card but forgot to get a picture of that. Thanks for looking!