I have been told i should have a christening cake for Mia's christening (8th feb). How do i go about it? what do i get written on top of it??? im abit confused.
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I have been told i should have a christening cake for Mia's christening (8th feb). How do i go about it? what do i get written on top of it??? im abit confused.
Up to you if you have a cake, I reckon. But make life easy on yourself - if you don't cook/bake and are likely to worry about it, make life easier for yourself and order a cake made for you (albeit it may cost a few $$) :D.
I can bake cakes ok but I'm definitely not a cake decorator. When my DS was christened last year, I made a round white choc mudcake, iced it with white ganache (white choc/cream melted together) and kept the decorations simple. I just went to the nearest cake decorating shop and asked the man behind the counter what I should put on a christening cake. He was fantastic in helping me put it all together - and it wasn't that expensive (less than a specially purchased cake, anyway).
In the end, I had a ribbon round the cake and on top I had a cross, some pale blue icing booties, my son's first name and date in bought lettering (not icing), and a couple of other little things to give the cake a lift (icing hearts on wire/tiny icing flowers).
For me the important thing was that the cake represented DS's baptism - that's why the cross, his name and the date. Most cake shops would be used to making/decorating Christening cakes so I'm sure they'd help you re: what to put on it if you buy one.
Good luck with it - it's a special day.
Andie
my mil baked ds cakes, she made up the icing and i iced it. Wrote his first name and his baptism date. Drew a icing pic of a cross. Nothing fancy, but it was Cake! ( i think they were heart shaped)
We usually have had simple wording along the lines of :Christening of ...... and the date" as well as a cross.
I didn't even think to put the date...OOPS!
We put "On your Christening Day, Mason".
We got a big round mud ganache cake thingy and got them to ice it with white chocolate. It looked and tasted awesome! I just put some sparkly sticks in it and thats it
DH wouldn't let me get DD christened (fair enough, we only go to church for weddings and funerals, but I'm still a sucker for 'pointless' tradition), but I remember photos of my christening cake. It was pretty much a traditional wedding-style cake - fruit cake (apparently de rigeur for celebrations in the days before mud cake) covered with marzipan icing, and it just had something like my name and the date, and mum still has the little cut-crystal crib with a plastic baby in it that was the decoration for the cake.
I'd recommend getting it done professionally, either at a place that specialises in wedding cakes etc, or just a slab cake made up by your local Woolworths/Safeway. Actually, I can't recommend the Cheesecake Shop highly enough after the fantastic consultation and cake I got done up for my wedding, they are more than happy to discuss options with you and go through folios of celebration cakes they've done in the store, and help you out with a quote so you can decide what you want vs what you want to spend. They do so many different styles, so many flavours and so many decoration options, I'm sure they will be able to help you out.
Hope the christening goes well, good luck with the cake :D