How Do I Do Basketweave?

Decorating By staceyd1984 Updated 8 May 2007 , 5:20am by miriel

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staceyd1984 Posted 7 May 2007 , 11:06am
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its my boyfriends moms birthday on friday and for her cake she has requested flowers.

into my head pops a basket of flowers. nice purple hand made roses.

than it occurs to me how do i make the basket look like a basket? i was going to do a round basket thats slightly smaller at the bottom than the top but not sure if that would work or whether chunks of the cake would fall off? so i may have to do a round basket thats the same all the way down.

anyway, i looked on other peoples pics for some inspiration and everyone seems to be doing basketweave? never heard of this! im new to cake decorating and im self taught so i thought i would ask you fantastic people if anyone could let me know how to do this!

cant figure out how you get the under over bit to work!

if anyone could help with as simple instructions as possible please!

thanks very much!

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ThanhThanh Posted 7 May 2007 , 12:22pm
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Hello Staceyd1984,

I just upload 1 picture that I made basketweave, and I had some other pics that relative to basketweave, I think those pics can give you some ideas.

TT

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NewbeeBaker Posted 7 May 2007 , 12:51pm
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Here is a link that has how to do a basketweave on it=) On the left side of the page a couple down, just click on basketweave. HTH some, Jen

http://www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com/techniques.cfm?cat=9

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staceyd1984 Posted 7 May 2007 , 1:10pm
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wow thanh thats perfect! i hope mine ends up like that!

thanks for the link newbee helps a lot!

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NewbeeBaker Posted 7 May 2007 , 1:44pm
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YW and good luck! I like how much info that site has=) Make sure to post a pic!! Jen

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mmgiles Posted 7 May 2007 , 2:03pm
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puzzlegut Posted 8 May 2007 , 5:15am
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Just curious, does anybody put a thin layer of butter cream on the sides of their cakes before doing the basketweave?

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miriel Posted 8 May 2007 , 5:20am
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Originally Posted by puzzlegut

Just curious, does anybody put a thin layer of butter cream on the sides of their cakes before doing the ?




I crumbcoat the cake before doing a basketweave so that serves as my thin layer of icing.

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