Pillow Cakes With Tiara

Pillow Cakes With Tiara on Cake Central

Here is my other entry for the NC state fair. All fondant over dummies. Thanks to Ginger08, hope22023, missyek, emmascakes, and others who posted beautiful pillow cakes that gave me great ideas. Thanks especially to missyek for the tiara pattern, and to adawndria for help deciding colors on that top pillow (by the way that top pillow is ivory and silver - it looks a little yellow beause of a yelow light shining down on it where I was taking the pic!).

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that is so beautiful.. you did a awesome job.. i also would love to make a master piece like this one day.. it really is beautiful

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Wow Wow WOW! This is my all time favorite pillow cake! You did a fantastic job on all of it and it looks like your frustration with the tassels paid off! Now you can post a tutorial on how to do tassels so the rest of us can make them! PLEASE?? Or pm them to me? Would love to make them like you did!

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8O 8O 8O :o :cry: I wish I could make something like this. This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL :P LOVE the colors and that tiara looks so real. Please let us know when they give you first prize :wink:

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You did an excellent job on these cakes. I love how you got the 'pillowy' look. What type of dummies did you use? Were they made from Styrofoam?

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Thank you!!! Yes, I did use syrofoam for the top two pillows, RKT for the bottom one. For the top two pillows, I just took a sheet of 3 or 4 " styro, cut a square, and then carved the pillow shape out of it. The styro was a pain to carve as it was VERY "crumby" (and the crumbs stick to everything thanks to static cling!)? Quite messy! But not too difficult, by going slowly. If/when I do a real cake, I will definitely use a very dense cake, and freeze it before carving. HTH!

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Thanks so much everyone for your kind words!! Please feel free to PM me with questions. I have answered a few in PMs already, but I think I will probably just post all the questions and answers in a thread later and link to the thread from a comment here. That way anyone can get the info whenever they need it. I got lots of help from CCers when I was figuring out how to do this cake, so I am more than happy to share my lessons learned!

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Hi, Awesome cake! I am making a pillow cake and I can't get the tassels at all, Can you help? Yours are totaly aawesome & perfect. I am making the cake next week already, I would appreciate your help.

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Lovely, Is this whole cake dummies?  Where did you find pillow shaped dummies?  I love the colors, you did an excellent job.  I just got an order for this for 70 to 100 ppl (big difference)  They are looking for a 2 tier pillow cake.  Any suggestions?