Baptism Cake

My friend asked me to make a baptism cake to give to her god daughter after her Christening. I had made her son's baptism cake earlier in January. She wanted a simple pink and white theme, with a rosary and a cross topper.

I love making fondant rosaries! Rolling the teeny balls of fondant is so therapeutic. I just couldn't help name each bead "Hail Mary" or "Our Father" as I finished rolling them. Yes, you can say the Rosary using this fondant rosary! After rolling ten or so beads, I would go back and poke a hole with a needle through the beads. If the beads were allowed to completely dry without a hole poked through, they would crack and fall apart during threading. 

The thread for the rosary is just good ol' dental floss, mint flavoured! Hey, floss is made to be put in the mouth! That makes it food safe, right? Not sure if anyone is actually going to eat this rosary, but I'm sure it would be fun to do so, probably like eating those retro candy necklaces or bracelets. 

The cake is a triple-layer devil's food cake, filled with 2 layers of whipped dark chocolate ganache, frosted with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream and finished with a fondant layer. Chocolately goodness for sure! The cross and ribbon around the cake are made out of fondant too. 

God bless Eleanor

Since the cake had to be out for about six hours without air-conditioning, I asked my friend if she would be willing to be a guinea pig to test the "fondant cake in the refrigerator" theory. This being a relatively simply decorated fondant cake (as opposed to a 3D multi-tiered cake), I crossed my fingers that it would work. 

Normally the aircon in my home serves only to preserve cake! Because normally, fondant cakes should not be put into the fridge because of the condensation that happens once the cake is removed from the fridge. The tiny water droplets would start to dissolve the sugar in the fondant, causing tiny craters to form on the otherwise perfectly smooth surface. More is explained in my FAQ page.

Anyway, to get around this, I placed the cake in a cake box, and double saran-wrapped the entire box. This was put into the fridge. My friend even went a step further and transported the cake, from the fridge, still wrapped in saran wrap, in a Fridge-to-go cooler bag to the party venue. The cake was allowed to sit in air-conditioning for a good half hour so that the any water droplets due to condensation formed on the plastic and not on the cake itself. When it was time to serve the cake, the saran wrap was removed and lo and behold, the cake survived! No ugly craters! Woohoo! 

cake survived refrigeration, undamaged!

So, in conclusion, it is possible to refrigerate a fondant cake. But make sure to do all of the above first!