The Making of a Hat Cake
This is a tutorial on how to make hat cakes like the one above. As you will see below, this is one of the easiest cakes to make. It also allows you to be creative. You need not use the same type of flowers and ornaments I used on this cake. This tutorial is meant to stir your creative juices. Below is another hat cake I made earlier. Although a more complicated hat cake, the ideas are similar. To get links to recipes used to make this cake, click here.
THE PROCESS:
(1) Make the feathers. Tutorial here.
(2) Make the roses. Tutorial here.
(3) Cover a cake board with fondant. Cut out the brim of the hat and place it on the cake board. You can lift an edge of the brim by placing supports underneath it and allowing it to dry that way.
(4) Drape the crown of the hat with fondant and place the crown on the brim. The crown here is an 8″ round cake. I frosted the cake and cut out the top diagonally to create the slope.
(5) Place the band around the boarder of the crown.
(6) Place the bows on the band.
(7) Now begin adding whatever flowers, feathers, loops, etc you want to add to the hat.
That’s all there is to it. Happy caking!
Terry Adido is passionate about showing people how easy it is to recreate restaurant quality meals in the comfort of their kitchens. With a style of cooking he refers to as Afro-European Fusion, his meals are influenced greatly by French and Italian Cuisine with a West African twist. If you love good food, you are in for the ride of your life.
this is perfect sir. God bless u
Thanks Aminat.
U are blessed sir.
Thanks Suzzy.
U are too good terry, more wisdom
Thanks Gbade.
Am really impressed……
Thanks.
Terry, pls i’ll like t know how you made the feather on this cake.
Hi. That’s the first thing I dealt with under the process.
Kudos to you sir and thanks for the tutorial sir
You are welcome.
Terry thank you so much for this tutorial…I have my first hat cake in a few weeks and this is what I needed. When I looked at the white cake above, it has some texture I would like to have on my cake. Would you mind sharing how you got that look?
Thank you again.
Hi Stacy, I make thin strips of fondant and stick/wrap them around the cake. Then I follow them with a stitching wheel. It is a lot of work.