Wednesday night was my 1st experience creating a pregnant belly cake. My cousin had seen one online and asked if I could make one for a baby shower she was throwing. I was a bit hesitant (and told her that), but she figured I could do it (Thanks for the positive thinking Cuz!!!!)
I wanted to make a rather large cake, using the Wilton Ball pan for the chest, so I had to find a large enough bowl for the belly. After checking out every bowl in my house and my families, I finally found an old glass bowl of my mothers that would be the perfect size for the belly! Baking the cakes was easy,and even though I was worried about getting the big belly cake out of the glass bowl I had no problems. One of the Wilton ball pan sides stuck a little bit, but nothing a little frosting couldn't fix.
I then leveled the dome pieces by hand (cutting off the weird bubble bump that the oven seems to always produce, and when I did that I noticed that my belly piece was not going to be tall enough. So I quickly baked up a 9 in round to put underneath it. After filling the cake (3 layers for the belly and 2 for the chest pieces), using only buttercream frosting because I didn't know how it would hold up and didn't feel like experimenting, I put the pieces in position on the cake board.
I quickly did a light crumb coat of frosting and let that "harden" a bit while I colored my fondant. I then added more buttercream frosting and was ready for the fondant!
I was extremely nervous about rolling that large a piece of fondant out and then moving it to place on the cake! I mean what if I screwed up? Needless to say I probably held my breath as I moved my HUGE piece of fondant and laid it over the cake. It went pretty smoothly, except for the one side where the fondant got too thin and decided to rip!
I went into creative mode and tried to figure out how I would "fix" the rip. I decided there would be no fixing, so I added a different colored piece of fondant over the area creating a sort of "sash" on the dress. It worked perfectly!
I then added my ribbons, polka dots and dress decorations (making sure to tie in my makeshift sash that I had to add), and pretty soon I had a pretty darn beautiful belly cake!
I was incredibly happy with my 1st pregnant belly cake. I don't know if I would have changed anything in my process... and even though the fondant ripped, smoothing the fondant was pretty easy over a dome surface. I would definitely do it again and actually look forward to my next belly cake! I just hope they liked it at the baby shower just as much as me.
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