Hello CC'ers with lots of "know how" advice!! I'm thinking about doing a pillow cake this weekend (well, Friday ) and I've never done one before (can you believe it??? ) so I thought I'd turn to my trusty friends for help!
I've seen some BEAEEUUUTIFUL pillow cakes here before and I'd really like to try one! Can someone tell me how you go about that? I have some sort of "common sense" ideas about how to but I'm better off getting advice first I think.....like, how do you achieve the shape, what kind of cake do you use, how do you go about covering it with fondant, if there's a certain way, etc..... I know the design i want to do on it once I've got it all together but it's just getting there that's the stumper for me!
If there are instructions on here somewhere that I've missed, let me know that too!!!
Thanks all!!!!
blessings
elly
HI All!
I am not expert on this, but I have the Collette Peters cake, Cakes to Dream ON. The pillow cakes are in here. For your regular pillow, she uses two square cakes(size to your liking) and them stacks them and they sculpts the edges to look like a pillow. I would start from the side where the cakes are resting on each other and carve up on an angle and then down trying to get the same angel. She also made a smaller on e with 2 round 2" layers cakes and did the similar thing. You can then decorate in fondant all over, I reccommend texturing if you go that route or just do it in buttercream and have some fun.
Hope this helps, let me know if you want me to read and see if I can get further details.
Bestest,
dawn
I printed instructions for the pillow cake for my files, it was from MariaLovesCakes, Wed. Aprl 19, 06 8:47 am Post subject Pillow Cakes!!
but I can't find it, is there a search??
Pyxxydust gave the instructions.
here it is...
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-22720-pillow.html
i'll have to try it myself one of these days
Oh my trusty CC'er budettes!!! I KNEW you'd help me out!!!!!!! Thank you SOOOO much for finding these instructions and leaving tips for me to go by!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! (or gals as the case may be ) I'll be sure to post whatever I end up with!!!
blessings everyone!
elly
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