instructions
*Note: Combine Violet and Rose for violet shown.
Combine Brown with Red-Red for brown shown.
One day in advance: Make fondant baby, hat, bear and train cars. Tint
fondant as follows: 6 1/2 oz. dark brown, 1 oz. light brown, 2 oz. blue, 1/2 oz.
black, 1 oz. violet, 3 oz. orange, 2 oz. green, 8 oz. copper. For baby, use
two 2 1/2 in. globes; tape one end of one globe closed for head. Roll out
copper 1/8 in. thick; cover both globes, leaving bottom end of head and both
ends of body open. Cover bottom half of body with white for diaper, top half
with green for shirt. For arms, roll 2 copper logs, 1 1/2 x 3/8 in.; flatten
one end and cut slits for fingers. Attach with fondant adhesive. Make copper
feet 1 3/4 x 1 in. wide; attach 1/4 to 3/8 in. ball toes. Cut black eyes with
narrow end of tip 8; attach. For mouth, roll out black 1/8 in. thick; cut
circle with wide end of any tip, then move up to cut crescent mouth and
attach. Roll out green and cut 1/4 in. wide strips for sleeves; attach. Roll
small copper ball for nose; attach. In copper, cut tip 2A cheeks and ears;
cut ear circle in half and attach. For hat, roll a 1 1/2 in. blue ball; shape
into a cone. For fringe, cut a 1/2 x 3 in. long white strip; cut slits 1/8 in.
apart and attach. For number, roll a small white log; cut sections. Print
name with tip 1 and buttercream.
To make bear: Roll a 2 in. x 1 3/4 in. dark brown oval body, a 1 1/2 in. ball
head, 1 1/4 in. x 1/2 in. logs for arms and 1 1/2 in. x 3/4 in. logs for legs; attach with fondant adhesive. Shape 1/2 in. dark brown ears; flatten small brown balls
for inside ears, muzzle and pads of feet. Roll out light brown 1/16 in. thick and cut 1 1/2 in. oval for belly; attach. Pipe tip 2 dot eyes and outline mouth in buttercream. For train engine, press orange fondant into
train candy mold; unmold. For other cars, roll out orange, blue and violet
fondant 1/2 in. thick; cut 1 in. x 1 1/2 in. rectangles. Cut contrasting color
wheels with wide end of tip 2A. Pipe tip 2 trim.
Bake and cool 3-layer cakes (you will need two 2 in. and one 1 in. layer for
each 5 in. high cake). Stack cakes; place 2 cakes on 7 in. square
foil-wrapped boards, 1 cake on board cut to fit and 1 cake on 12 in.
foil-wrapped cake circle. Prepare all cakes except one on 7 in. square for
stacked construction. Pipe tip 16 star letters and borders on sides, 3/4 in.
wide. Pipe tip 3 outline tracks.
At party: Assemble A-B-Y cakes. Insert 9 in. dowel rod in B cake; position
baby over dowel rod. Position bear, train and train cars.