Need a quick and one of a kind baby shower gift? My standard baby shower gift is an original baby blanket. I have shared several of the baby quilts I have made in the past and this time I wanted to try something different. I found a great quality blanket that was plain and a few different fat quarters of fabric. A fat quarter is those precut squares of fabric you see on the shelves at crafts stores. I found an image I wanted to use to match the nursery, this time a whale. I cut the pieces of the printed whale out and then traced each piece on the fabric I wanted.

​I ironed the fabric onto double-sided iron-on material, then after they were cooled, I cut out the whale pieces and removed the second paper backing 

​These melting cakes seem to be the biggest trend in cakes right now, so I was really excited to do one. The cake was a simple chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling covered in homemade aqua colored fondant. I didn’t want to risk the sprinkles getting into the pink icing so I brushed on some sugar water and slightly tilted the cake to sprinkle the sprinkles on. If there were any bald spots I just filled them in. To create the ice cream scoop I used some rice crispy treats and tightly impacted it into a ball and covered it with pink fondant. I placed straws under where the scoop would be placed so it wouldn’t sink into the soft cake. Once the ice cream cone was in place I whipped up a batch of cookie frosting and added just an extra teaspoon of milk to get the runnier look I needed. I piped the cookie icing and allowed it to drip naturally. I also piped some icing on the seam of the ice cream cone and the rice crispy scoop. Once finished I sprinkled more sprinkles in the wet icing. Now to be honest I don’t know how other bakery’s do their version of this cake, but I couldn’t be happier with the mine turned out!