Church Presentation Cake

by Mildred Delgado
(Milledgeville, Georgia)

For the bottom part of this cake, I used a 12 inches by two round yellow cake. I soaked it with almond syrup. I inserted 6 dowels for support. The upper part consist in 2 cakes(one tier) 9 inches by 2 chocolate cakes.

I split the two cakes in halves and filled them in using chocolate fudge and caramel filing. I cover them with white butter cream icing and then with white fondant.

I air brushed it with sky-blue sheen color. I cut out different size stars with a cookie cutter and attached them to the cake.

I made some other stars to give the up in air look and put them on a floral wire and placed them on the cake as well. These stars I colored them silver dust, blue dust and pearl dust as well.

I cut out a long strip of fondant and used it as a ribbon for the bottom of the layers. I made a pair of praying hands out of modeling white chocolate and placed them on the cake.

I made the modeling chocolate by myself. I covered them using pearl dust.

I made the bible out of modeling white chocolate giving it a bible look. I drew a gold line along the bible to give a book mark look. I printed on an icing sheet a "page" with the baby's information the name, event day, and parents name, etc.

I used a rotating cake base which lighted up and placed the bible on top of it.