This sweet little Teddy Bear with balloons adorns a delicious Baby Shower Cake, made in expectation of the arrival of my newborn great grandson, Ben.

Though it was made for a shower for a boy baby, it surely can be made for girl babies or, with a Happy Birthday message instead for a birthday party. The cake’s texture and flavor is reminiscent of a velvety white wedding cake. Can you say “best ever?” It is!

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Baby Shower Cake Recipe

Ingredients

1 box white cake mix

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup granulated sugar

3/4 tsp salt

1 1/3 cups water

1 cup sour cream

2 T cooking oil

1 tsp almond extract

1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs

OvenStuff Non-Stick Round Cake Baking Pan 2 Piece Set, 9″, Gray

Directions

Preheat oven to 325°
Grease and flour two 9″ round cake pans
Stir together dry ingredient -white cake mix, flour, sugar and salt – in a large bowl
Add wet ingredients- water, sour cream, oil, almond and vanilla extracts and eggs.
Beat on low speed for about 4 minutes, some lumps will remain.
Pour into prepared pans.
Bake until tops are lightly browned and toothpick comes out clean – about 25 minutes.
Cool.
Remove from pans.

Frost and decorate. VIDEO: How To Layer and Frost a Cake With Perfectly Smooth Sides

Baby Shower Cake Frosting

Ingredients

1 lb. butter, softened

2 lbs. powdered sugar

1 T vanilla extract

Milk

Directions

Cream the butter and sugar, adding the sugar a little at a time.

Let it cream in your mixer for about 30 minutes

until very fluffy**

Add vanilla and milk to the consistency you want.

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**This cake was made by my niece, Lauren, who is a professional pastry chef. It is not beneath her to use a box mix as an ingredient once in a while as she did in this case. The secret to her frosting is that she used a mixer on a stand so that she could blend the frosting ingredients for long periods of time and, let me tell you, it was worth it. It tasted amazing!