Henri’s Football Cake

January 17, 2016 by Jennifer Lori 5 Comments

Henri turned 7 last week.

I know, I don’t know where the time went either.

One minute he born, the next he’s this:

…this super-cool, chapter-book reading, rational-thinking, butt-shaking, quote-spewing funny, loving, sweet, creative, hysterical wise old soul.

His party is coming up and it got me thinking that I’ve never gotten around to posting all his cakes from prior years, so I’m going to amend that. First up: his first birthday.

When Henri turned one Yannick suggested a football theme, as the Superbowl was coming up and his favorite team at the time, the Indianapolis Colts, were playing. Using Yannick’s hat and jersey I set little Henri up for a photoshoot and got this pic:

Then, using the front and back of a Colts trading card for reference, I made up this invitation:

Love his stats 😀

The cake was only my second or third attempt at using fondant, so looking back on it now, I cringe, but at the time I was pretty proud. I’d tinted white fondant to as close a match to Colts blue as I could and then cut a huge cake into roughly a jersey shape. White fondant was used for the accents. I remember being afraid to trim the edges and have cake show through underneath so I’d left them look ‘messy’, hoping it would appear like rumpled fabric. Heh.

I shaped one of the cut out cake sections into a football which I covered with fondant I’d tinted brown.

The smaller cake not only provided a place to put his name without messing up the look of the jersey, but it also was a perfect ‘smash’ cake to give him, so he could get his first taste of sugar and try to feed himself.

It was a hit 🙂

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Henri’s other birthday treats