How To Make A Purse Cake

My version on how to make a purse cake is finally hither! I take a few tips that I desire to share before nosotros get started. My purse cake is rather high. So it might be a little hard to motility it around in one case it's placed on the cake board. If you should need to motility your cake for a longer distance. I would recommend you lot to cutting more of the cake before you begin with the crumb coat.

Also the size of the block and cake board is optional. You tin of grade scale down the size if you want to make a smaller (purse) block. If yous decide to cut more than of the cake. Say that you cut the circular cake in 2 halves, yous should exist able to cover the cake with the white fondant in one get. So yous would not demand to cover the sides one at a time.

I used a gum paste brooch equally ornament on my cake, but you could also decorate it with a gum paste bow instead if y'all like. That would look beautiful as well. I hope that y'all tin use this tutorial.

And so let'south go started!

This is what I use:
9″ cake, 3″ high with the meridian levelled (I used a dark chocolate mudcake)
Buttercream or chocolate ganache (I used Italian Meringue Buttercream)
Small slice of cardboard, for the bottom of the cake
Parchment paper
Angled spatula
Serrated knife
Fondant covered cake board 12″
Rolled fondant icing (About 2 1/ii lb – 1,5 kg) 7 oz coloured in the same colour as the glue paste brooch.
Big & small rolling pivot
Tylo powder (CMC, Gum Tex)
Tylo glue
Small sharp knife
Scalpel
Gel paste food color (I used Avocado from AmeriColor)
Golden lustre dust (I used Golden Sands from Edable Art, a Uk brand)
Small corporeality of articulate booze or lemon extract
lustre dust (matching the gel paste food color) (I used Iced Pino from Edable Art, a United kingdom make)
Large cosmetic powder brush
2 brushes, 1 for painting and 1 for the Tylo glue
Cornstarch dusting bag
Block smoothers
Ribbon or strip cutter
Large round pipe tip
Piping gel
Ruler + pencil
Big spatula
Gum paste brooch
Optional: Small gum paste flowers for extra ornament.

Step 1:
Accept a piece of rolled fondant. Large egg size and knead it with one tsp of Tylo powder.
Tylo powder CMC

Pace 2:
Scroll out the fondant to a 5mm thickness. Take a ribbon cutter or a strip cutter (culling use a knife) and cutting a 9″ long and ane″ broad strip.
Fondant
Fondant strip cutter

Footstep iii:
Use the cake pan that y'all broiled the block in to shape the handle for the purse cake. Let it dry for 1 day.
Gum paste handle for purse cake

Pace 4:
Curl out the remainder of the "Tylo" fondant and use a large round pipe tip to cutting out 2 small circles. Flatten them slightly with your finger and ready a side to dry out a little earlier painting them with the golden lustre dust mixed with few drops of clear alcohol/lemon excerpt. When they are dry, brush them with a trivial bit of gold lustre dust. Gear up bated.

Step 5:
Take your levelled circular cake and cut off well-nigh 2″ of the "bottom". Add together a thin coat of buttercream and place the small piece of cardboard at the bottom.
Chocolate mud cake
Purse cake

Step 6:
Place the cake on a piece of parchment paper and crumb coat the whole cake with buttercream. And then identify the cake in the refrigerator for ten-xv minutes for the buttercream to set up.

Stride vii:
Smooth the buttercream with the angled spatula that have been dipped in hot h2o. Place it in the fridge for about 8-x minutes.
Crumb coat

Stride 8:
Roll out some white fondant on a lightly dusted surface to nigh 4mm thickness. It should be large enough to cover one side of the bag cake. Utilize the fondant and shine information technology with a cake smoother.

Carefully trim off whatever excess fondant using a sharp pocketknife or scalpel. Echo for the other side of the cake.
Note: If the buttercream is getting a lilliputian soft. Place the block in the refrigerator for a few minutes. Before you encompass the other side of the purse cake with the rolled fondant.
Cover purse cake

Step 9:
With a ruler and a pencil. Depict a long strip on some parchment paper, Brand sure that information technology is in the same width equally the cake and that information technology can get all around the block. Roll out the coloured fondant to a long strip (virtually 4mm thickness).

And then cut out a long strip by using the parchment paper strip as a template. Curlicue up the fondant and cover the middle of the cake. Trim off any excess and smooth with cake smoothers.
Note: As you tin see on the photos. I did not brush the fondant strip with lustre dust, Every bit I was thinking of (I just forgot all most it). Merely information technology is much more like shooting fish in a barrel to add lustre dust before you utilise the fondant to the cake. Merely brush the lustre grit on the fondant with a large powder brush earlier you roll the fondant
Rolled fondant icing
Purse cake

Step 10:
Next cut a smaller strip of fondant, nine″ long and 1 1/two″ wide. Brush it with lustre grit and gum information technology on with a little Tylo glue. I would recommend that you allow the cake "dry" for 1 mean solar day before you lot carefully identify information technology on the cake board.
Purse cake

Step 11:
Place the cake on the cake board
Use a little piping gel on the cake lath where y'all want to identify the block. Then with a little help from a large spatula lift the purse cake onto the cake board on top of the pipe gel.

Step 12:
Accept the handle and carefully gum it on with a little Tylo glue. Then glue on the two small-scale golden rivets on each side of the handle.
Purse cake handle

Step thirteen:
Finish the purse cake with the gum paste brooch. Glue information technology on the strip with a lilliputian Tylo mucilage.
Tip: Permit the Tylo glue dry until it is tacky to the bear upon, before attaching the brooch. This will help the brooch to stay in place and Not slide off. You can also place a little piece of Styrofoam underneath every bit back up while it dries.
Brooch on purse cake