I am making an 8" x 16" cake by placing 2 8" x 8" cakes side by side. It is going to be a wine bottle cake and I want the base to be a basket. The cakes are going to be WASC with straberry cream cheese filling and chocolate with chocolate mouse filling. My dilema is what to cover it with. I didn't know if I should do buttercream tinted brown, or chocolate frosting (not sure how that would go with the WASC) or use brown fondant, either plain tinted brown or I have fondarific in both chocolate and mocha....any suggestions would be so helpful, I am very busy with cakes this week and I am not sure how to solve this dilemma. Thanks in advance for any advice!
Kym

chocolate covered almonds --- ok they go together.

chocolate dipped strawberries -- ok they go together too.

chocolate and chocolate --- give me more!


so that cover both sides of the cake with chocolate.

so the question is chocolate frosting using the basketweave or the fondarific?

I would do the basketweave.

and I would do fonderific.

(hmmm chocolate and mocha marbled together????? I love them both!)


of course the fonderific goes on over a "dirty icing" of chocolate buttercream.

gotta keep our priorities straight -- as much chocolate as possible!

how would I do the fondarific to look like a basket? or would it even matter? I could make it look like a box I suppose...ideas?

well good thing the small one is out of stock and the big one is way to expensive for me to consider, I am going to have to give this some thought...I love the idea of weaving the fondant but 48" around is a lot of cake....

check the polyclay aisle at Hobby Lobby/Michaels/A C Moore -- they may have a small one there.


and if you google basketweave impression mat - it is carried at other online stores.

oh Doug....you are a BAD influence! I looked at some baskets in the galleries that were woven from fondant, and I think I could handle it....I'm going to see how much fondarific I have left after using it for the cake I originally bought it for. No time to order, cake due saturday!