I made a white cake, sculpted it into a basic purse shape and crumb-coated it with buttercream. I chilled it to allow the cream to set while I rolled out white fondant. I covered the cake with fondant and trimmed it leaving it long enough at the top to wrinkle like the top of a … Read more
This girls birthday cake was made for a friends birthday. I used fondant to cover the cake and the zebra stripes were painted on with black food color.s birthday. I used fondant to cover the cake and the zebra stripes were painted on with black food color.
I baked an 11 x 15 sheet cake using 2 boxes of cake mix, so that it would bake high. I cut the cake into 4 equal pieces, filled and frosted the layers with butter-cream, stacked them 4 high on top of 4 layers of cardboard covered in floral printed foil paper. I hammered a … Read more
This was my second purse cake. This cake is a life size purse. I started off by baking two half sheet cakes. I cut the two cakes in half and stacked the four rectangle shaped cakes into four layers. Each layer was about one in a half to two inches tall with butter cream in … Read more
I made this Suitcase Cake for a friend’s Wedding Shower. It’s a double-layer cake — 9 x 13, one layer chocolate sheet cake, one layer vanilla sheet cake, with a whipped-cream layer between with pink buttercream icing (Wilton’s recipe). The marble effect of the icing was actually just due to poor mixing, but it looked … Read more
I got the instructions for this Purse Birthday Cake from “Howdini”. I used one 9 inch round for the purse and used some of the leftover cake to make the coin purse. I used licorice for the handles, fruit by the foot and candy heart paper (bought at Cracker Barrel) for the decorations. I used … Read more
I was asked to design a Designer Style Handbag Birthday Cake for my mother-in-law’s friend as a surprise birthday cake. I started off with a Wilton book cake tin and baked 1 kg of Madeira cake mix in it and left to cool. Once cooled completely, I split the “book” in half down the centre … Read more
This was my first attempt at using fondant on a unique cake of this kind. It came out okay and was easier than I thought it would be. I cut three layers and stacked them with a thin layer of butter cream frosting between each. I used light and dark pink fondant on the outside … Read more
My daughter requested a pink cake, no preference as to what, just pink girls birthday cake, for her ninth birthday. She is into the makeup thing and loves purses so we thought of a purse. We made two 9×12 cakes, one chocolate and one fun confetti. Cut them in half length wise then stacked them … Read more
This backpack cake was made for a co-worker of my dad’s who was going backpacking across Canada. It’s a 1 layer 9×13 yellow cake. I found a picture on the web of Backpack from Dora the Explorer and used it as my inspiration. I cut the cake into a backpack shape, iced it with a … Read more
This Purse and Shoes Cake is made with vanilla cake mix and home made butter cream icing, 1/2 butter, 1/2 vegetable shortening. The handle is made with fondant and so are the shoes. The letters are candy, the rose and flowers are fondant. This cake was made for my daughter who turned 8 today.
I made this purse cake for a little 13 year old birthday and she loved it. I made it with a 1/4 sheet cake pan and sectioned it off into 3 equal rectangle shape with the bottom a little bigger and the top smaller. I used buttercream filling between each layer and then refrigerated it … Read more