Hello all! I am making an Easter/Spring basket cake for my grandma's bday, but I'm having some trouble w/the handle for it. I wrapped some gumpaste around some wire & pinched the sides together, but it's too skinny in proportion to the cake. What are some other ways that I can make a nice basket handle?

Roll a couple of long sausages out of gum paste (as fat as you want the handle to be) and twist them together to look like a rope. Shape and lay flat to dry for a couple of days to dry.

you could use sweets too, like thick liquorice, things like that. nto too sure on how people get it to stay bent, but they do! good luck
xx

you could use sweets too, like thick liquorice, things like that. nto too sure on how people get it to stay bent, but they do! good luck
xx

Thank you so much for your responses. I didn't think about trying the candy idea. I think I will try making the handle again tonight using the rope method. Thanks!!

I just had this same problem. I tried the rolling out, but my fondant is just a bit off the right texture, and every time I try, I get breaks in the fondant, or the twisted part doesn't look right. These are for tomorrow morning, so I don't have time for gumpaste to dry.

I finally took a small circle cutter, cut circles in two of the colors I'm using for the basketweave, and wet them and folded them in half over a floral wire I had. It worked great, it looks like it's scalloped.

HTH!

try making the handle out of a braid of fondant/gumpaste and put sticks in the bottom to push into cake when dry. Check out my Easterbasket in my pics, i used the braid and it come out great and was sturdy.

Here's a pic to show you what I did. The first one (the pink/purple basket) I didn't think to bend the wire first, so it turned out a little weird. Luckily, it's only for my daughter's kindergarten class, the other one is for my son's 2nd grade class.

HTH!