Is it just me, or is there another baby boom? I guess the economy is making people stay at home more and babies are resulting from all of the forced homebodies! :P Could that be it? My dearest friend Lisa, my BFF since I was 14 years old, is having a baby and I offered to make the baby shower cake. Their little boy will be named Justin, so I made blocks of cake with his name on the blocks. Congratulations Lisa & Jack… Can’t wait to meet the little guy!

As usual… I decided to try all new recipes for the cake. Yeah, that’s how I roll. Luckily everything turned out great, except the serving platter. I had the perfect one in mind, but it ended up being too small to hold all of the cakes. Since we had a long wedding the day before, it wasn’t even an option to find another platter to display the cake. Then I had the great idea to display each individual cake on its own square plate. However, I only had 5 square plates and needed 6…. Vat to do… vat to do? So I had to get creative and turned a half sheet pan upside down and covered it with aluminum foil… It would have been better if I had covered the pan with fondant, but I didn’t have enough left over to do so. Looked sort of like lipstick on a pig… :P

This was also my opportunity to try marshmallow fondant. I’ve seen it floating around the blogosphere lately and due to the raves, was looking for an excuse to try it. I used the recipe from Confections of a Foodie Bride, (find recipe here) and was VERY pleased with the result. It looked and acted just like fondant, but was NOT nasty! Greeeeat success! It was very pliable and flexible. I rolled it out quite thin and had absolutely no problems. I will NEVER use store bought fondant again!!! Of course, it is painfully sweet (literally… I have very sensitive teeth), but definitely edible.

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