How To Secure A Ribbon Handle To A Buttercream Purse Cake?
Decorating By beauty4151980 Updated 16 Nov 2006 , 9:06pm by tiptop57
I plan on making a purse cake for my mother's birthday. I plan on frosting the cake in buttercream because she doesn't like fondant, and I would like to use ribbon for the purse handle. How should I go about securing the ends of the ribbon handle to the cake? Can the ends somehow be tucked under the frosting?
if you take a knife and put slits in the cake where you want the ribbon, you should be able to then wrap a little of the end around the knife tip and put it back in the slit. my only concern would be whether or not the ribbon would stay in a handle form, or fall onto the cake. Maybe if you used a wired ribbon.
Thanks for both of your responses. I hadn't thought about using drinking straws. What a great tip 
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I use 'em all the time on anything standing up and that aren't too heavy on my cakes. Otherwise I use a very small plumbers pipe I got at the hardware store and have to cut each time I use it.......then I wrap the fondant pieces around a cake dowel and insert into the pipe in the cake. When doing that I make sure I hammer that pipe into the cake board (just like a cake dowel) so it doesn't fall over. My pieces don't move then.....
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