Hello all! I am making an Easter/Spring basket cake for my grandma's bday, but I'm having some trouble w/the handle for it. I wrapped some gumpaste around some wire & pinched the sides together, but it's too skinny in proportion to the cake. What are some other ways that I can make a nice basket handle? 
you could use sweets too, like thick liquorice, things like that. nto too sure on how people get it to stay bent, but they do! good luck 
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you could use sweets too, like thick liquorice, things like that. nto too sure on how people get it to stay bent, but they do! good luck
xx
Roll a couple of long sausages out of gum paste (as fat as you want the handle to be) and twist them together to look like a rope. Shape and lay flat to dry for a couple of days to dry.
This is the method I would use, although I'd lay it to dry in a bed of PS or corn starch or on very soft foam so I didn't get any flattening on one side. Also, I would push a skewer into either end of the handle while it was soft, so that it would be easier to anchor into the cake.
I just had this same problem. I tried the rolling out, but my fondant is just a bit off the right texture, and every time I try, I get breaks in the fondant, or the twisted part doesn't look right. These are for tomorrow morning, so I don't have time for gumpaste to dry.
I finally took a small circle cutter, cut circles in two of the colors I'm using for the basketweave, and wet them and folded them in half over a floral wire I had. It worked great, it looks like it's scalloped.
HTH!
try making the handle out of a braid of fondant/gumpaste and put sticks in the bottom to push into cake when dry. Check out my Easterbasket in my pics, i used the braid and it come out great and was sturdy.
Here's a pic to show you what I did. The first one (the pink/purple basket) I didn't think to bend the wire first, so it turned out a little weird. Luckily, it's only for my daughter's kindergarten class, the other one is for my son's 2nd grade class.
HTH!
Here's a pic to show you what I did. The first one (the pink/purple basket) I didn't think to bend the wire first, so it turned out a little weird. Luckily, it's only for my daughter's kindergarten class, the other one is for my son's 2nd grade class.
HTH!
How did you do those?
I ended up using the rope handle. The cake is in my pics. Not my best work, but I still like it & I'm sure my grandma will too. 
I finally took a small circle cutter, cut circles in two of the colors I'm using for the basketweave, and wet them and folded them in half over a floral wire I had. It worked great, it looks like it's scalloped.
HTH!
GREAT FIX! I've been racking my brain for how to make a last minute handle that will dry by the time I need it. Looks like my search is over. Thanks! 
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