Ok I have to make a Tiffany Box wrapped cake.. any suggestions or hints on how to make the square lids.. someone told me to flip the square size pan you are using over and use plactic wrap and cover with gumpaste trim edges and let dry..1 week.. lift off and place on cake?? What do you all think about that way?? Also.. I would like the sides to look like they were wrapped in paper. how do you get the envelope look??
Thanks...
The easiest way to achieve it is cover the back of your baking pan with a tight fitting wrap like press & seal. Grease it lightly with shortening. Then roll out your gumpaste and drape it over. Mold it to the shape of the pan and smooth with a smoother. Then you can use a utility knife and a ruler and cut the ends off to make them crisp. Let it dry for a few days and then pull the plastic wrap off the pan allowing you to have a "handle". You might have to let the inside dry for another day. Then you can put it onto your cake after.
Ok I have to make a Tiffany Box wrapped cake.. any suggestions or hints on how to make the square lids.. someone told me to flip the square size pan you are using over and use plactic wrap and cover with gumpaste trim edges and let dry..1 week.. lift off and place on cake?? What do you all think about that way?? Also.. I would like the sides to look like they were wrapped in paper. how do you get the envelope look??
Thanks...
For the lid you see here in my cake. I simply inverted the cake pan and dusted it with corn starch. Then I draped my gumpaste over it and used a sharp knife to remove the excess gumpaste. I then assembled the bow directly on the lid of the box and left it to dry.
The cake you are showing however, seems to have been assembled from 5 pieces of gumpaste. Using that method you will need to cut out a square for the top and 4 rectangles for the sides. Then assemble using royal glue and/ royal icing. This will give you much sharper corners and edges.
When I do mine, I cut out a square 2 inches bigger than the cake and then cut out 1 inch corners and score the edges just a tiny bit, making sure not to cut through, then lay it over the pan and wet the corners to stick together. After it's set up a good bit, I flip it off the pan so that the underside dries well also. I find cutting the corners and scoring the edges gives you nice sharp lines.
Sarah, you werent in MD last night by any chance? There was a woman that looked like you that was in the wedding cake competition.
nope not me...I was in my kitchen wishing I could get the dang cakes done and get to sleep...lol
And thank you bcake, I can't wait to see how your's turns out.
Ok.. come over here and do mine girlfriend!!
I have one of them bad boys due this weekend..
I covered my cake pan that was larger then the actual cake itself... I covered it like I would a cake except down to the lip of the pan....I then used my cutters and cut a pretty design out of the bottom.. and it made it the right height 
OOOOOOO CHRISTI, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT.
I think that is sugarshacks cake. I kind of think she said that each piece of the lid was cut separately and left to dry. cut to fit exactly and royal iced together. But I could be wrong!
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=28494
This is a different sugarshack cake, but she explains how she did it in the comments section. HTH!
Sorry to butt in,but if the lids on bcake1960's Tiffany boxes were made out of gumpaste it would certainly be hard to cut the cakes.Wouldn't it ?Or I most probably didn't undertand.
It made sense to me if the lid doesn"t cover the box completely as in the other beautiful cakes shown under the Tiffany ones.
Please, enlighten me.
weirkd how do you manage this without breaking the lid as you peel it off the pan? Do I put the press and seal over the pan then grease then lay over the fondant??OR do you use gumpaste?Is the pan upside down or is it done in the pan?sorry for such stupid questions but I have to make lids for the first time and want to get it right 
TIA
I'm not weirkd but the way I did mine was to wrap the pan in pns (press n seal) got it real flat to the pan (don't need to grease) .. let it dry for a few days.. take off flip upside down and let "lid" dry like that a day or 2
I used straight fondant but you could use 50/50 fondant/ gumpaste or straight GP .. all to what you prefer
you shouldn't need to make a seperate one.. just let it dry for about a week ... I am assembling mine for this weekend (will upload on Friday) ...
Because it will be so hard though I am going to put a little piece of wax paper on top of the cake.. cake will be dusted with just a tad bit of ps before I add it though.. so when they are ready to cut they can just lift the lid
Hope all goes well with yours bcake!!!
Can't wait to see it!!
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