I Am Really Disappointed... Need Some Help Please!
Decorating By chefdot Updated 28 Jun 2006 , 6:04pm by chefdot
I have PM'd people on here and posted a topic in the forum and NO ONE has gotten back to me on this. I have always been able to count on someone on here to help so hopefully this time around someone will help me. I want to make a gift box cake for my friends shower coming up and I love all the ones I have seen on here but I want to make sure that it turns out right. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
How do you do it to where the box top is offset with fondant tissue sticking out. A step by step would be great. I am just afraid of it slipping off the cake. Is the top of the box actually cake too? I didn't want to cover it with fondant if I didn't have to so what would be the easiest way to do that? HELP!!! PLEASE!!! 
Hey Dot..
Sorry to hear about the lack of responses,I can't help you because I have never made one, but would really like to know how they do the box cakes also!!
The way I did the lid for the baby boy shower cake in my photos, was like this:
frosted the top tier with buttercream, put the fondant ribbons down the sides, then put the green fondant, ruffled up, around the edges to look like tissue paper. (And I put crumpled tissue underneath 'til it dried so it would hold its shape.) Then I put a fondant mommy and baby duck sitting in the middle of the green fondant tissue-paper 'nest', and just propped the lid on top of the duckies' heads.
As for the lid itself, I simply rolled out the fondant and molded it over the bottom of the cake pan that I baked the top tier in. Trimmed it all around so it looked like about a 3/4" lid, then let it dry. Cut a piece of cardboard the same shape, then glued that to the inside bottom of the lid with a little water (this was for support for the lid, because it was very fragile without having a cake under it), and it turned out just fine. It never even thought about falling off that cake!
No doubt there are a zillion other ways to do it, but that's what worked for me on that particular cake.
LOL ksue... I think we got it... jk!
thanx so much! that totally helps. i figured you could just put a dowel to hold it and hide it with the fondant tissue, i just get nervous when i do a new cake if there's something i don't think about doing that would help.
Quote by @%username% on %date%
%body%