I know this is probably an dumb question but before I make all the cakes and figure it out by having to start over 3 or 4 times to get it right I thought for once I would ask for help....please help!

I am doing a sci-fi cake and thought that stacked books with a few characters around them would do the job. However I can't figure out how you ladies made the covers a different color than the paper. I want to do it all in fondant.

Did you cover the cake first in white fondant for the pages then with a colored fondant for the cover? or did you cover the cake in the colored fondant and then put a strip of white fondant on for the pages?

Thanks!!!!

Oh books are so not fun. I wish you luck. You can just cut a strip of white to go around the sides for the pages, not need to cover the whole thing. You could also use the basketweave tip to pipe the pages in buttercream.

Oh books are so not fun. I wish you luck. You can just cut a strip of white to go around the sides for the pages, not need to cover the whole thing. You could also use the basketweave tip to pipe the pages in buttercream.

Oh books are so not fun. I wish you luck. You can just cut a strip of white to go around the sides for the pages, not need to cover the whole thing. You could also use the basketweave tip to pipe the pages in buttercream.

Oh books are so not fun. I wish you luck. You can just cut a strip of white to go around the sides for the pages, not need to cover the whole thing. You could also use the basketweave tip to pipe the pages in buttercream.

Thanks! I thought this would be fairly easy till I really looked at it. Now I am stuck....

I don't think they are too hard if you let your fondant stiffen up before you put your "cover" on.

Here is how I did mine:


a thick piece of white scored fondant with the lines was placed on the 3 sides for the pages. the spine and top cover were one piece. i added a TON of tylose to the dark colored fondant. rolled it out just under 1/4 inch thick. let it set up some before i put it on the cake. go no more than 1/4 inch over the top edge of the cake or cover will droop. I propped the corners up with viva for a while so they would not droop. the bottom "cover" is just strips (1/4 inch wide) applied along the bottom white part of the pages.

ps... pages first

Thanks Sharon! I just ordered some stuff from you last week. I guess I will do a test cake before I have to do three big ones.

OK I tired to do one of these and it looks like crap! I just don't know what I am doing wrong!

I made a stacked book cake for graduation a few months ago. As mentioned above, I did a white strip around three sides of the book, and then did the cover, all in fondant. What I wanted to do but I ran out of time was cut the strip and then texturize it (for lack of a better term) so it had ridges that would make it look more like paper, then paint some blue thin lines to make it look more 3D. It my head it sounded/looked great! Who knows if it would have even worked.

I did my first book recently. And what the ladies are saying above is right. First measure the three sides of the book and cut a strip of white fondant first. You can even use that veining tool to make it look like individual pages. Then measure the top and remaining side (with the binding). I do this in two steps, first the top is one piece, then the binding is one piece. Then I just used strips to make it look like the bottom has a backcover.

Is there a pictured tutorial for the book cake?

Thank you for your responses. I would love to see a pictured tutorial of this kind of cake!!!

Thanks for your suggestions...here are the final pictures.



http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1294449

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1294451

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Oh my gosh. That cake is amazing! You should write a pictoral tutorial.

It's AWESOME!!!! Great Job!

WOW! Your cake rocks! Great work!

jammjenks: If I do one of these again I will. I was so worried I would mess up the book part I didn't do it this time. I took stages pictures with the characters but not the books.