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Ho-Hos Inspired Baby Shower Cake

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What happens when twitter obsessed bloggers host a baby shower…

You may already know, my friend Jenny is having a baby. Crazy to think, little Jonah will be here in 30 days!! Can’t wait to meet the little guy and of course get my baby fix too !

So when my friend Emily (Jenny’s cousin and the cohort at Momminitup) and I were trying to figure out what the theme of the shower would be, Emily had a BRILLIANT idea to have the party food revolve around Jenny’s tweets. Let’s face it, Jenny has been tweeting A LOT about food this pregnancy – HA! She gave us plenty of ammo to work with. Here are just a few of the tweets we used:

Ho-Hos, Lulees Lollies, Cassanos Pizza

Coke, Dr. Pepper, Cassanos Pizza, Hershey's Syrup, Twix

We had all of the above items at her shower along with the appropriate tweet hung beside it:

Photo courtesy of Anna Studer

Photo courtesy of Carole Baker, on behalf of local un-advertising agency, U! Creative

So the predicament I was in, how could I make a cake yet include some of her cravings. So after racking my brain and sending a couple of ranting frantic emails to Emily, I came up with brilliant idea – not that I am tooting my own horn !

It began with the idea of implanting ho-hos into the cake somehow. I wanted the dessert display have some coherence. I also wanted to incorporate another of Jenny’s favorites – Lulees Lollies. Our talented friend Luanne came up with the idea of favors so that each guest could take a “little Jonah home”.

Lil Jonah

I came up with the idea of using a cupcake tree. One layer having a traditional cake, one layer made of ho-hos, and one layer with cupcakes with ice cream and Hershey syrup on the side. I liked the idea of using the browns of ho-hos and a blue considering that is what colors Jeremy used for the invites.

I headed to the craft store to find some inspiration…in ribbons. I needed a ribbon to tie the ho-hos together. I found some cute ribbon that was dark brown (ho-hos) and big blue circles. Score! I also found some other cute ribbon that incorporated dark brown, light brown and blue that I thought would be cute around each tier of the cup cake tree.

After thinking about the top tier cake, I realized that I could incorporate Jenny’s favorite coffee drink – a Mocha. So I found a mocha butter cream recipe that I thought would pair perfectly with chocolate almond cake. The circles from the ribbon inspired the circles on the cake.

I chose peanut butter butter cream for the chocolate cupcakes because who doesn’t like chocolate and peanut butter together. And the light brown matched perfectly with the ribbon that I purchased. I added blue fondant circles with “J” for Jonah.

And with that, the “cake” evolved! Here is the outcome. I kinda like it !