Quilt Baby Shower Cake

It's a beautiful thing, a quilt baby shower cake, created by Diana Albers from Highland, MI.

"Instructions: This is 2 9 x 13, quarter sheet cakes, one was cherry chip with nuts and the other was a marble cake iced together to add some variety. I divided the cake into equal squares to go around the edge of the cake. I used a star tip and filled each square with a different color of icing.

I zig-zagged around each block to add some contrast.

I added little baby items to each square.

I put a stork with teddy bear in the middle and wrote welcoming the baby by name.

I used a whipped buttercream to frost the cake that used meringue powder to hold up in the heat.

In the end it turned out to look like a babies quilt so I was happy with it. And it tasted great too!

It ended up getting a little smashed by carrying it in so I had to come up with a quick fix so I saw this extra ribbon so I made a bow and covered up the smash, it was not in the plan but all turned out good in the end."

Diana's quilt baby shower cake was entered into the 2008 baby shower cake contest. Thanks Diana!