Hello everyone. I need help with making baby blocks. A client of mine wants her son's name "Lawrence" spelled out with baby blocks. I told her that it would be to time consuming to do blocks made out of cake. I don't even want to try that. Can someone please help me with what other way that I can do the blocks other then fondant or gumpaste. The cake is to be done by Saturday morning coming. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
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For me the easiest way to go will be the little cakes, just make an extra single layer square cake, cut, cover in fondant and decorate with royal icing, you can even make them ahead of time and just use them to decorate your cake or if you think it's to much cake you can make them out of styrofoam but it's expensive and hard to get a clean sharp cut. I hope this helps. Good luck!
You can get styrofoam at Michael's or walmart to make the baby blocks. If you decide to go with the little cake blocks, refrigerate them well before you try to cover them. They are tricky little suckers to cover if they are not cold enough. 
I have done the blocks both ways, and by far, it was easier to use the styrofoam. I did 6 blocks with the little cakes, and I was ready to scream and kill after the first one kept sliding all over the place. 
Here is a link for the real cake blocks.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1178798
And a link to the styrofoam blocks.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1192022
Good luck with your cake! I can't wait to see it!
I agree molly2, I'd go for the rkt. You could press them firmly into a lightly greased pan, turn them out, and then cut them into the desired size. Then you could easily cover them in fondant and paint on the letters.
I donât think it would be that bad time-wise to make them out of cake⦠Four 8x8â squares, 2â thick would give you the eight blocks necessary to spell the name⦠Either fondant or buttercream to cover them, then I think they would be the right size to use alphabet cookie cutters to slap fondant letters on them... Is that something that might work, or did I misunderstand the request?
I just want to thank everyone who replied to my post on baby blocks. They were good ideas. I'll try some of the methods before agreeing to make them the next time. I talked my client out of the baby blocks. We'll go with cupcakes decorated like Sesame Street characters.
3Angels 
Molly2,
They are made of gumpaste with fondant accents. They did turn out nice, but as I mentioned, they were a pain in my rear. The actual blocks were not that bad, it was getting all 4 corners attached and waiting for them to dry. I used fondant adhesive to attach them with.
Thanks for the compliment, have a wonderful day cc'ers.
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