This week has been interesting. I knew I had one order for a birthday cake in the shape of a chanel handbag with a shoe. It turned out to be much more than that!
Chanel Handbag.
The customer wanted a specific type. Here were my lessons:
1. She likes black and a cake covered entirely by black is a challenge. It's very hard to get black other than buying ready made, but I wanted to try. I was able to reach the black I wanted but there is a side effect ... because there is so much edible ink in the fondant, I can't store it in the fridge. As I was molding my hands were melting the fondant so much it was bleeding. So I imagine the same thing will happen when the cake comes out of the fridge!
2. The chains. I first wanted to use real chains from a hardware store, but the ones I bought were too bulky so settled with making them out of fondant! Such a tedious work!!!!
3. Gold is also hard to get right - I'm not feeling great about the outcome but it's a good start!
Christian Louboutin Shoe
1. Gumpaste. i read a little about this on the web and decided I'll give it a try. it is basically a hard form of fondant. I don't like to work with it as much as fondant but it hardens very fast very well so it's great for cake accessories.2 . Templates - I had to come up with my own templates on how to make a shoe! That took the longest!
3. Glue - again, more googling to find what to use to glue gumpaste well - meringue power with water!
4. Varnish - I wanted to give the shoe a shine finish and found a recipe for edible varnish. In the end, though, I didn't use it cause I ran out of time.
5. Challenge? The shoe needed to be HIGH heel...so my first try was a failure cause it broke while drying
Lipstick and brush
1. No huge challenges here. A couple of interesting points
2. The lipstick dried croocked once again. Next time i leave things to dry I have to watch for gravity's force!
3. Brush - I actually tried the garlic press to get my bristles!
Flowers
1. This was done as an artistic spurr of a moment last minute. I still had left over red gumpaste from the shoe so decided to beef up the overall look with a couple of flowers
Covering cake board with fondant
1. I also tried this for the first time. I love the look but it's so hard to do! Because I used a 16" cake board (big) i had to have a perfectly large rolled fondant piece to glue it to the board. Not only did that take time, I also had to mix purple...again, the least part of the fondant making process for me. I did this on Tues for a Sat order b/c fondant needs to harden a bit before I can put the stuff on top!
Overall, what matters to me the most is that people do recognize it's a bag and a shoe :P and my cousin just called to say the cake was delicious and was not too sweet for her - just right (she doesn't like too sweet)...Mission ACCOMPLISHED!
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