How's this for crazy... I've agreed to make a cake for a SMALL baby shower next weekend. I've done baby shower cakes before but have never used fondant. I want a SIMPLE fondant cake idea - I was thinking of just doing a 2 layer 8-inch round cake. She is having a girl and i want the cake to be really "girly" - lots of flowers????? I am just at a loss for what I want to do. HELP! Any ideas? I looked in the gallery but couldn't find any really small cakes.

I do alot of two teired 8" and 5" cakes. Just click on the link to my website below!

really simple:

make little baby head, arms, body.

cover cake in fondant

lay on baby

make a little pink blankie out of fondant an lay on top of baby.

decorate sides w/ anything girly: flowers, ballet slippers, pink rocking horse, etc.

some other ideas from Wilton

http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesandprojects/babyshower/crybaby.cfm

http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesandprojects/bday/curlybow.cfm

http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesandprojects/babyshower/babyscoming.cfm

I have a couple of very simple girl shower cakes in my pics-a pink and green one and the baby poking her head out of the stork bag.

Here's one I did. Kind of sounds like what Doug described.

An 8" round and a 6" round all in buttercream with MMF baby girl. Got the baby girl idea from this website. Thanks to all!

Please excuse the non-smooth edges....hadn't yet found out about the Viva trick!

Good luck! Can't wait to see what you do.

I am sending a link to a very sweet and completely easy bootie you can make from fondant..make a couple of them in white... perhaps the cake fondant in pink and make some fondant pearls for the border and that is a very easy cake.
I just made the booties tonight for a new baby cake at my work and they took no more than 10 minutes..they are cute.

See the pics..it is a tutorial about 1/2 way down page when you get to the topic..

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-49631.html

HTH
Jane

Here are some ideas:

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=onesie&cat=0&pos=18&search=onesie

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&meta=search&type=full&search=onesie

I like covering the cake with pink fondant and then I make a white bow out of fondant so it looks like a present. I make a tag out of fondant and use buttercream to write something on it ex. the most precious present or something like that.

I just did 2 cute and simple ones using cut outs/mini cutters (feet and bears) check my photos. Also I did one with daisys and you could make them have pink center. They were VERY easy!

Good Luck!!!

Thank you everyone for all your advice! I ended up deciding to do a simple white fondant cake with a baby on the top and a pink blanket on top of her. Some yellow flowers, too. I will post pics when I finish. THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!