A "Minnie" Surprise for a Friend

One of my closest friends, Jamie, is expecting TWINS!!  God love her!  Well, she called me up a while back and TOLD me I was doing the cake for the shower  ; )  Like I'd turn her down anyway!  Her Mom called me to iron out the details and when I asked her if she had something in mind, she said she didn't really.  She told me that they were doing the theme of the party to somewhat match the nursery, which was done in a beachy, surfer theme.  And with that, the first thing that came to mind was two little baby bottoms on the beach.  I came up with an idea to do two rump cakes on a sheet cake.  For those of you that don't know, a "rump cake" is a cake that looks like a baby's butt sticking up in the air.  It's super cute and a fairly flexible and easy concept to run with.

Because Jamie is a HUGE Mickey Mouse fan, her Mom and I both wanted to incorporate that into the cake.  I came up with this...  And I'm THRILLED with the results!!

Jamie made it adamantly known that she wanted chocolate -- I knew I liked her for a reason, lol!  So, I started with a Devil's Food cake then layered and covered it with vanilla buttercream.  I pressed crushed graham crackers into the frosting for a "sandy" effect.  I draped two "beach towels" over top in the colors of the nursery.  I added a turtle embellishment to the boy's towel and a hibiscus to the girl's towel.

I covered two fudge cake "rumps" in red and white and placed them on the beach towels; red on the boy's towel and white on the girl's.  I then added pound cake legs and feet to the rumps.  I covered those in flesh-toned fondant.  I decorated the red rump like Mickey Mouse's shorts with the two white buttons and even gave the boy yellow sandals to match Mickey's shoes.

For the girl, I make a pink fondant sheet and fitted that onto the rump as a skirt.  I added white polka dots like Minnie Mouse's dress and ruffling around the legs.  I completed the ensemble with pink sandals.

I finished off the design by painting the names Jamie and her husband Mike picked out -- Grayson and Madelyn -- on the edges of the rumps and icing "tread" on the bottoms of the sandals.  I iced "Welcome Babies" into the tread, as well.

I am sooo excited for you both and can't wait to meet the new additions!!!!  Congratulations!!!!