Pink Ballet Cake
I didn't make this cake for any particular event. This was just a design I thought was beautiful and wanted to make. So, I made it for us. Consequently, I only made it using one batch of vanilla cake baking it in a five and four inch baking pans. For a ballet cake, though, we need a lot of pink fondant. I didn't have much. I only had a bit of dusty rose, a bit of store-bought pink and some white that I mixed all together. The color turned out kind of a baby pink. That was just what I wanted. Then I made two fat sausage shapes out of the baby pink fondant. I wanted them to be about the same size. Then I used a knife to cut out an oval of fondant out of the middle to form the ballet slippers. I smoothed the bottom with a ball tool and the edges with my fingers. I used this fondant press mold to make a couple of small bows. This is what they look like when you press them out. I picked my favorite two and stuck them on the sli...