The Making of a Purse on a Quilted Stool Cake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a cake I made for a young lady’s birthday. It consists of  pink purse on a quilted stool. You can read more about this cake here. This post documents how this cake was made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE PROCESS

(1) I started of by making the name tag, locks and buckles which were made with yellow fondant and left to dry for a few days. They were lady painted with gold pearl dust mixed with vodka for luster. The cake board was also made in advance. Click here for cake board tutorial.

(2) A frosted 8 inch cake was placed placed on a cake board and wrapped with pink fondant. I decided to wrap as oppose to drape the fondant because I wanted a smooth finish without any tears or folds at the base.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3) Next, I used a ruler and tracing wheel to create quilts on the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4) The lines of the quilts were later traced with a stitching wheel and pink sugar pearls were embedded in the meeting points of the quilts. I brushed the cake with vodka both to make it glossy and to provide a wet surface for the sugar pearls to stick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(6) After working on the quilt, I decided to cover the top of the stool with my trademark patterned fabric. This is a technique I developed a couple of years back. It involves cutting several colors of triangles and sticking them on a piece of fondant. A stitching wheel is later used on all the edges to give a duvet look. The edges were finished with a thin strip of pink fondant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(7) The bottom tier finished, I switched to the top tier. The top tier was made by stacking rectangular cake sponges on each other. The sponge here is a red velvet cake frosted with creamcheese frosting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(8) I decided to construct the top tier on top of the bottom tier because I used a paneling method of applying fondant which involves measuring the sides of your cake, cutting out fondant and sticking it to the measured sides. This method is best for square cakes and geometric cakes. I placed some wooden dowels in the bottom tier on which the top tier rested on. You can read more about how to stack cakes here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(9) First, I covered the four sides of the top tier with a darker shade of pink.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(10) Next, I added some stitched patterned fondant to the front.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(11) Next, the flap was created and used to cover the top of the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(12) Finally, the belts, buckles and tags were added to the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is how this purse cake was made.

This cake also inspired another cake which had a leopard print stool. You can read more about this second cake here.