I made a cowboy hat cake covered in fondant. It's really easy if you use the oval pans for the hat. Stack three high, cut out a notch in top and cover in fondant. I used a large oval of gumpaste for the brim - cut a hole in center for the cake. I placed it on thick foam and proped up the foam on both sides to curl up like a real cowboy hat. It took a few days to dry. I dusted with petal dust to give it a suede look and added a fondant band. Actually was pretty easy to do. Just took a little time for the brim to dry. Hope this helps you.
Here is a link that will help you
http://cakecentral.com/article123-How-to-Make-a-Cowboy-Hat-Cake.html
I have made this a few times look at my pictures.
Molly2
i made one...it's in my photos. it was a "cavalry" hat.
i did gumpaste for the brim, molded off of my cowboy hat, and then propped up to the shape i needed. after two days of drying and airbrushing multiple times to get it the color i needed, it was laying on the countertop. my husband opened up the cabinet right above it, a plastic cup fell out,a nd wouldn't you know it...it fell right on the turned up brim part. broke a big chunk out, but i was able to hide it with the "neckerchief" i draped in the back...shewwww!!
it wasn't really hard to do this, just takes a couple of days to dry. i would highly recommend gumpaste, though, over fondant, since fondant is affected by the humidity in the air, and might soften back up on you, or never even get hard at all.
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