Baby Buggy Shower Cake
For board: Trace 14" cake pan on cardboard or foam core board; estimate area for wheels at bottom of cardboard to match decoration (pictured above). Use two pieces copy paper, taped evenly together (to make the template longer to fit cardboard-one piece of copy paper is not long enough to cover area). Put copy paper on bottom of cardboard, make a mark on paper for area needed to accommodate the 5" wheels, letting decorations be your guide; fold paper in 1/2, trim paper evenly to make template. Trace template shape onto the bottom area of the cardboard. Once traced, cut the cardboard & cover with white Fanci-Foil (Hobby Lobby, in cake decorating section), or aluminum foil.
This is a 14" round cake w/ 5" wheels. Ice 14" round cake white, cut crescent shape from wheels to fit flush against cake; ice sides of wheels white. Ice bottom of buggy area with pink icing. Use a #13 star tip for top of wheels and canopy. Use round tip (about a #7, but doesn't need to be exact--any round tip will do.) for dots & heart shape (near writing on cake). Using finger coated in cornstarch, flatten dots & heart smooth (cornstarch will absorb into frosting if a little cornstarch is left on icing). Use black icing #5 tip to outline heart, write, draw wheels & handle. Trim areas of top of cake with a #13 star tip; use larger star tip for trim on cake board.
*When coloring black icing, always color your icing in another color first (I use blue), so that the black gel color will have something to "adhere" to once you add the black gel color; this will produce a true black icing color.
