Does anyone know how or have directions with pics if possible, of how to make the pillow cake?
Like the one that its done for weddings?
Thanks.
Hi Maria!
I have an example of a pillow cake in my photos, although it was for a child's birthday, I'm sure the technique of making it could be used for a wedding. Let me know if this is what you're looking for and I'll be happy to share how I did it. But if you do a search in Galleris under "pillows" you'll see a lot of other examples. Most are for prince/princess cakes, but there's one in there that I LOVE - it's Cinderella's slipper on two stacked pillow cakes! It's gorgeous! In fact, I used a picture of that to help me do my own.
I would love to know how to do the pillow cake also. They are so pretty!!
Yes, me too. That would be a great one to submitt for the "articles" section in here.
Jacqui
Sure! I'd be happy to share my info. This was my first time doing one, so others may have better instructions than mine, but maybe it would be a good article for someone to do. I wish I had taken pictures in the "process" now. Also, this one was a small pillow - but the lady who did the glass slipper cake did larger pillow cakes - so I'm sure it can be modified.
I have to admit though that it was a lot easier than I thought it would be! I started out with an 8 inch contour pan. I've seen some pillow cakes with square pillows with more angled edges, but I wanted a more curved effect. So I started out with the 8 inch contour pan. It's 3 inches deep so I was able to make the whole pillow out of it (as opposed to two separate layers - I think it's much easier to work with when it's a solid piece of cake), using the rounded edges as corners. First, I froze it, and I took it out when it was still frozen (but the cake itself isn't actually frozen solid - just really cold), I put it on the counter and took a serrated bread knife, and cut at a slant between each corner of the "pillow." I cut towards the middle but not all the way down - because I knew I'd have to flip it over and cut it the same way on the other side - so make sure you don't cut too much off. Once I got done with the 4 sides - that's when I flipped it over and did the same thing on the other side. I think I had to trim some height off too, to make sure one side of the pillow wasn't higher than the other.
Believe it or not - that's it - as far as giving it the pillow shape! Once that was done, I covered it with buttercream and a single piece of blue fondant (I used the Wilton one that you can buy already tinted blue - I've since learned to make Marshmallow fondant and probably won't use the Wilton again because it tastes horrible!). Once that was done, I smoothed out, and tucked under a bit at the bottom, I made the rope border and the tassels.
For the quilted effect, I used the Wilton fondant embosser wheel - it comes with three different "wheels" and I used the one with the little square looking things. Once the fondant was on, I used the wheel to emboss the top - I just started in one corner and rolled it over the top to the other side. That wheel thing is a pretty nifty little toy!
Now you can use clay guns to make perfect rope borders, but mine wasn't working really well (I've since learned that warming the fondant for a few seconds in the microwave does wonders for helping it work with a clay gun!), so I just rolled out the ropes by hand in the two different colors and twisted them. Unfortunately, when you hand roll them, the width isn't always even, but hopefully nobody noticed! The tassels were suprisingly easy too. I put the fondant in a (clean, of course!) garlic press and push it through that way, probably about 3 inches long (you might have to push fondant through more than once to get the right length - when it runs out, just don't take it off and add some more fondant - it should all stay continuous). And be careful when you remove it from the garlic press cuz it's very easy to squish it so it doesn't look like individual strings anymore - I used an Xacto knife to "scrape" it off. Then, bend over a little bit of the top of the tassel and wrap a small strip of fondant around it. Then I attached them with royal icing (some people may let them dry before attaching them but I was in a rush). I put the rope borders on first (I made one for each side - don't try to make one long one and wrap it all the way around the cake - it would be very difficult to do), also with the royal, and then put the tassels on to cover the joins at the rope borders. Lastly, I covered the tassels and rope border in Super Pearl, just to give it that extra little magical touch! After all, this cake was to be presented to a prince, so I had to make it worthy! Ha ha.
Please let me know if I forgot anything or if there's any other info I can give you - I'm so happy to help because I've learned so much from everyone on this site, as well as Wilton's discussion forum. That's how we learn all these cool tricks!
Thanks again! I hope you'll post your pictures when you finish with your cakes - I'd love to see them!
I wanted to thank everyone for their replies.
I am going to give the pillow cake a try!!!
Thanks again! 
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