April Showers Baby Shower: Umbrella Cake

By Jeanne Benedict, Celebrations Expert
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This beautiful umbrella shower cake is ideal for both bridal and baby showers.

This cake design and photo is courtesy of Make Fabulous Cakes, where you'll find detailed instructions on making this entire cake. Here's a simplified version for DIY hosts to make the only umbrella cake of this display.

Steps:

Bake a large round cake that you will cut in half to be the umbrella. (I suggest at least a 14" diameter cake.)
Cut the cake in half and place one half on a cake board. Spread filling on top of the half on the cake board and place the other cake half on top. Refrigerate the layered cake until ready to frost.
You can ice the cake with canned frosting or homemade butter-cream, or cover the cake with fondant; whatever's easiest for you.
Cut a PVC tube or wood dowel to a length that's in scale with your cake to be an umbrella handle.
Roll out prepared white fondant and wrap the umbrella handle in the fondant. Insert the handle into the side of the cake (see photo).
Fashion a hook for the bottom part of the handle by molding fondant and attach it to the handle.
Cut out white flowers from the fondant to embellish the umbrella or purchase hard sugar flowers to decorate it.
Write a congratulatory phrase on the cake using decorator's icing, and fill in the umbrella details to give it authenticity and style.