I am planning to attempt a purse cake similar to this one...
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_79286.html
I like the style of this purse, but what size pan, how do I cut it, layer it, etc?
I plan to buy a quilted impression mat, but I would like every other "diamond" to be a different color (maybe pink and brown). What kind of product can I use to color the diamonds?
Are 3-D cakes more difficult to frost? Am I going to need to worry about it falling over when I'm icing it?
Any other tips or ideas you can offer would be great!
Hi,
I did one similar to the one you like back in Feb (it's in my photos - "Driving Miss Daisy").
My was smaller but I used a 9 x 13 pan, cut it in half, stacked it and then carved it to the shape I liked. The tutorial on here is very helpful!!
The one thing I wish I had done was to put it in the frig or freezer after securing the layers with buttercream before carving!
I'm afraid I can't help with the coloring 
Here's the CC article on making a purse cake:
http://www.cakecentral.com/article64-How-To-Make-a-Purse-Cake.html
Purse threads:
(Info on zippers, templates, stitches and more.)
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-56067-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-771241-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-2660-.html
Most if not all of these cakes are covered in fondant, but the cake construction info would be the same.
HTH
Thanks everyone for your help. Most all of my questions have been answered!!!
Only one thing I am still unclear about...coloring of the diamonds. I am attaching a picture of an actual purse with the pattern and colors that I am going for. Pink and brown diamonds. I'm having a purse party, and I want to bake a purse cake that has this look. So, is there any way to get the multi colored look? If so, how? What are my options.
Thanks for helping me out. I'm a newbie and I don't know what I'd do without you all!
Wow!! That's going to be a super-cute cake!
It would be a lot of work, but have you considered cutting each diamond out of fondant and piecing together once you have crumb coated the cake? That way you could pre-make your colored fondant and all the diamonds would be the same color? Just a thought.
I'd do the same as above for the dots too.
Hope you get some more ideas/thoughts on this!! 
I think I'd cover it all in Brown fondandt. For the circle part, you can use the circle part (non-tip part) of an icing tip and cut out various circles in the brown. Remove those pieces of brown fondant...then roll out your pink fondant and cut the same size circles (from the icing tip) and put the pink circles in where the brown use to be.
You could probably do the same for the diamonds. Roll the purse in brown, see if you can find a diamond cookie cutter and cut out the brown...replace with the pink.
Hope this helps!
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