Hello everyone. I have a purse cake to do for a friend next week and was hoping for some helpful hints from those of you who have made one. It is going to be a tall bag, not the one shaped like a saddle bag. What I'm most concerned about is keeping it from tipping over. Thanks in advance for all your help...........Tonia
Have you seen this instructions? they are posted here in CC
http://cakecentral.com/article64-How-To-Make-a-Purse-Cake.html
Thanks, yes I've have read through them. I wanted to make mine a little different, kind of like the open diaper bags. I've seen some of the purses on here made that way too. It's one of the larger coach bags I would like to make.
If you've found a pic on here that you like, you could pm the person to get insturctions. HTH
I'm not sure there's anything in it to help you in this particular project, but the tutorial for my diaper bag cake is here:
http://www.cakedalaska.com/Caked_Alaska/Welcoming_William.html
Deanna
Ok, I'm giving myself a bump. Thanks to all who have replied, but the cake I'm doing is taller and open at the top, I guess more like a shopping bag. Any help out there for the tipping issue?
Check out Colette Peter's book COLETTE'S BIRTHDAY CAKES. She did a purse that seems more in the direction you're going, I think.
Paul (& Peter)
are you interested in something like the purse cake in my photos?? i can help u out if u are!
Hello everyone. I have a purse cake to do for a friend next week and was hoping for some helpful hints from those of you who have made one. It is going to be a tall bag, not the one shaped like a saddle bag. What I'm most concerned about is keeping it from tipping over. Thanks in advance for all your help...........Tonia
Hi Tonia, I just did a tall gift bag; it's in my photos.. I used two dowels and drove them into all layers and into the foamboard. I transported it across town, and it held up very well.... the bag itself was over 8" tall and only 4" wide....
CakesByLJ that's exactly what I was talking about. So you just used foamboard as the cake board and drove the dowels right into it? Thanks for responding. I think I was with everyone else reading the big mystery going on in that OTHER thread and didn't know if anyone would read this one
CakesByLJ that's exactly what I was talking about. So you just used foamboard as the cake board and drove the dowels right into it? Thanks for responding. I think I was with everyone else reading the big mystery going on in that OTHER thread and didn't know if anyone would read this one
Yep, that's it... hammer them right into the foamboard... 
Finished my cake, thanks everyone for the help.
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