Giraffe Baby Shower Cake

by Jessica B.
(Altamonte Springs, FL)

A friend of mine brought me a picture of a topsy turvy cake and said I want this shape of cake, don't care what you do to decorate it!! So, this is what I came up with. I started the fondant little flowers, the stars, dots and stripes, 5 days before, which took a few hours.

The bows are actual fabric. The bottom layer is chocolate with buttercream icing then covered with fondant with decorations, the next tier is vanilla with buttercream covered with fondant with decorations, the top 2 tiers are white with buttercream with fondant covered then fondant decorations. I used a white wedding cake recipe for the top ones, a vanilla recipe for the next and a rich chocolate recipe for the bottom. I placed dowels in each cake (except for the top) to hold up the next tier and the little flowers where used to cover up the space that the dowels left. The little giraffe was a gift to the mother-to-be.