LaLa Cake: It's a GIRL!!!!

I haven't had the energy to tackle any big projects lately... mostly because of the little girl baking in MY oven over the past 21 weeks! Regardless, an announcement this big deserves a special cake.

I finished this cake around 5 am a few nights ago while in the middle of playing the "I can't sleep or get comfortable... and I have to pee" game. Even though I was tired, groggy and a little bitter to be awake it was great getting back to decorating!
Here's a quick run through of my day and my very late night.

I started by making rice krispy treat figures.
One duck...

& one block.

Next I covered a double layer 8" cake with light green fondant.

As Cake Boss would say I "dirty iced" the treats, or put a coat of icing on the figures so the fondant would stick.

I covered the duck with a mixture of modeling chocolate and yellow fondant.

Added some girly details.

Modeling chocolate is used for detail work like this because unlike fondant it is mold-able and smooth-able, but my duck was still a little lumpy.

Rolled out zebra stripes and covered the block.

This was the end of day one and beginning of my long night.

A friend had this picture posted to Facebook as their lastest Pin to Pinterest

( I'm willing to bet it was tweeted on Twitter somewhere too)

I used the same idea to cover the front of the cake with green and light green roses.

Cut out leaves from fondant scraps I had.

On a side note: I seem to always have a lot of little pieces of different colored fondant and gumpaste leftover from cake projects. These scraps will stay fresh for months by covering them with a light coat of shortening then wrapping them tightly in plastic wrap and storing them in a plastic container. It's nice to have an arsenal of colors for decorating whenever you need it.