Perfect for the "It's a Boy!" baby shower, celebrate with this wonderful devil's food cake that's shaped like a toy baby block!

It's a Boy! Baby Blocks Cake

This decadent, Devil's food 4-layer cake can be put in square cake pans, stacked, and iced to look like a baby block.

Ingredients
For the cake:
3 sticks butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups sifted cake flour
3 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 cup boiling water
3/4 cup dutch cocoa, sifted
For the icing:
3 or 4 drinking straws
8 cups confectioners' sugar
1 cup butter, softened
2 tsp. vanilla
8 Tbsp. milk

Directions

Bring 1/2 cup water to a boil in a small saucepan. Sift cocoa and pour into boiling water. Remove from heat, and stir vigorously until completely mixed. Set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating with an electric mixer on medium speed until completely blended before adding another one. Add vanilla.

In another bowl, mix cake flower, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Sift thoroughly before adding to wet mixture. Alternating between the cocoa mixture and the dry mixture, add to butter and sugar, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Pour into 4 8" square cake pans, and bake for 25-30 minutes at 325 degrees.

For the icing: Using an electric mixer, blend confectioners' sugar, butter, and vanilla until smooth. Icing will be dry. Add milk a little at a time unitl icing softens and becomes of spreading consistency.

How To Make Baby Blocks Cake

Remove cakes from pans alfter allowing to cool for 10 minutes. Set apart on racks, allow to cool completely, about 45 minutes. Stack cakes on top of one another gently, and trim off uneven edges with a serrated knife. Unstack cakes and separate.

Cut straws into 5" strips. Beginning with the bottom layer, ice the top of the cake, then stack another layer on top, gently, until all four layers are stacked together. To hold layers together: before icing the top and sides, push cut straws vertically down through all the layers, evenly spaced, in five different areas of the cake.

This is where it gets creative! You can create the numbers or letters of a baby block with licorice whips, candies, icing in another color, or cardboard cutouts. Some cake stores also have numbers and letters made out of sugar you could use. Use whatever you want to use to make this cubist creation look like an adorable baby block!