Can anyone give me some help on how to get a felt a suede effect on a purse cake? Thanks, Fearless Baker

I have an idea.....I made a treasure chest cake and was having all sorts of trouble smoothing the icing.......so I put my offset spatula blade over the burner of my stove for a few seconds and then used the "hot knife" to smooth the frosting on my cake....it melted the frosting slightly and changed the chocolate to a slightly darker color...but what I was left with...really looked like sued to me!!! I didn't care, it was a treasure chest...but it was something that I thought to myself would be great if I ever needed a suede look....here is a photo of the treasure chest you can kinda see what I'm talking about....everyone at the party thought it was a toy covered in felt...so maybe it's what you are looking for??

I know you said suede, but I thought of this. I am going to try a Collete cake next week, and it is called Antique Velvet Purse. It is in her Collette's Birthday Cakes book. The purse in this case is brown, and she says " Dust the cake with cocoa powder to achieve a matte finish resembling the old look of velvet."

I don't know what color you are doing, but I thought this might help you get some idea of where to start.

Good Luck

You can definitely get that look with fondant....if you want to use that. Or if you're wanting to use buttercream, KHalstead's idea sounds like it would do the trick. I did a crusting chocolate buttercream once and used the hot spatula method to smooth. It sort of melted the icing a tiny bit too, and left the chocolate darker in some places than others. But when it dried and crusted over again it was really very suede-like...especially with the slight difference in color here & there. Plus it dried with a matte finish, like suede has. Maybe just play around with these ideas some and see what gives you the look you're wanting to most. Hope this helps!