I want to try and make one of these and I have a silly question Isuppose...
It looks like some of them are the circle pan cut in half and stacked together standing on end is this correct?
If so I'd do the same w/ a square pan - wanting to carve a shape out of it - SOO I'd have to bake 2 cakes carve both have it stand on it's 'side', correct? HOW does it not fall over? I guess this is stupid question but for some reason it's not working in my head.
Take a look at this one, hope it will help
http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/parents/story/data/1130438551015.xml
It's not a silly question. I also want to know!
I think someone posted that the book pan can be used as purse becase of the way it tapers. I have a photo of the first one I did. The little ones fooled around with the makeup so they don't look as good as when first done.
There are instructions for one in Sylvia Weinstock's book Sweet Celebrations too. I made it into a dummy cake for a competition (in my pics), so I didn't use real cake, but for the lying down purse you'd just shape the square into rounded-corners and 2 layers deep. For the upright shopping bag (or purse) her instructions didn't say stand them upright, but rather cut them into narrow sections and stack those in layers, so: like a 4" wide by 8" layer as deep as you want, and then fill it and place another layer on top, until it's as tall as you want. Doweling would probably be in order to help it stay upright...
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Here's a link somebody posted on another thread regarding this subject:
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeId=40764
As I asked back then, do any of your people who have done a purse cake have any pictures of it before you covered it in frosting?
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