Steal Home Cake
Steal Home Cake: Teddy bear-shaped baseball cake decorated with frosting baseball cap, paw, toes, and baseball glove; serves 12.
Ingredients
Cake (baked and cooled using Teddy Bear pan, ears removed)
1
Buttercream Icing (for side and face smoothing)
to taste
Fondant (hat) (add 3/4 tsp Gum-Tex, half tinted blue)
8oz
Fondant (skin color) (tinted light copper for hands and feet)
reserved mixture
Thinned Fondant Adhesive (for attaching lollipop sticks)
to taste
Baseball Mitt Icing Decorations
several
Cornstarch (anti-stick)
to taste
Instructions
1
Make Fondant Hat
Mix 8oz Fondant with 3/4 tsp Gum-Tex, tint half blue and set aside. Roll the blue Fondant to 1/8 inch thick, cut hat and brim using template. Slightly bend the brim, stand on cornstarch-dusted cardboard to dry. Roll a 1/2 inch diameter ball, gently flatten, attach to top of hat with wet brush. Let dry.
2
Make Hands
Tint reserved Fondant mixture light copper. Roll to 1/8 inch thick, cut right hand using template, flip template to cut left hand. Let dry.
3
Make Toes and Ears
Roll 2 large toe balls 3/4 inch diameter, 6 medium toe balls 1/2 inch diameter, 2 small toe balls 1/4 inch diameter. Roll remaining Fondant to 1/8 inch thick, cut ears using wide end of tip 1A, cut in half. Attach 2 lollipop sticks to each hand, 1 to each ear, secure with Thinned Fondant Adhesive, extending 2-1/2 inches.
4
Assemble Cake
Bake and cool cake, cut off ears. Smooth ice the sides and face. Insert hands and ears into cake.
5
Draw Details
Outline all parts and details with tip 3. Fill eyes with tip 3 (smooth with cornstarch-dusted finger). Fill remaining areas and make stars with tip 16; cover wrists, feet, and nose for dimension. Use icing dots to attach toes.
6
Decorate
Outline belly button and patch numbers with tip 3. Make bottom star border with tip 16. Attach icing decorations. Place hat and attach brim with icing. Serves 12.
