For my mum's birthday cake this year I decided to make a sewing basket cake. I got this idea from a magazine I was given but I made a few little changes to make it mine. I made a rich chocolate cake, filled it with vanilla buttericing and covered it in chocolate sugarpaste.
When I did the royal icing course mum commented that she liked the piped basket weave effect so I decided to do this around the cake.
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| Lines marked around the cake |
I marked lines around the cake and then piped the effect between these lines. I also covered and piped on a 8" board, this is to create the lid on the basket.
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| Basket weave effect |
To decorate the cake I made some rectangular pieces of icing, I used mats to get some fabric effects on these. They were then drapped over the cake and stuck down. I made buttons using flower paste and a mould. These were scattered over the basket and around the edges.
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| Lots of Buttons |
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| Buttons |
I also made some knitting needles out of modelling paste and stuck these on the board.
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| Finished cake |
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| Zoomed in finished cake |
Overall I hope my mum liked the cake. I was quite pleased with the it and thought it was effective.
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