Hi everyone, i took on an order im not really sure about. its for the cake below except in pink.

the decorations are fine but i dont have a rectangle cake tin and was going to make it out of a 10inch square. will this look ok or should i carve it into a rectangular shape? i dont want to lose much cake.... also, to make the top look like a book any tips for how to carve?? thanks so much, Cathy

I would think you would need a larger pan if the cake is going to be very large. If you are carving from a squsre, you will lose a good bit of cak. You can go online on ebay and get a book-shaped cake pan. I got mine for about 4 bucks and it arrived in less than a week.

You really should invest in a rectangular pan...... you will use it more than you know !

Depending on big you want the cake to be, I would bake TWO 10" squares and place them side by side. Then carve the shape of the book that way. You can use the natural seperation of the two cakes as the "spine" of the book! Everyone will think you got it from a mold!

Smaller cake? Use an 8" square!

Hope this helps!

thanks for the advice, my problem is also that i havent got the right size of cake drums and boxes for anything bigger than a 10 inch at the minute. this has been fine for months as all my cakes are 6, 8 or 10 inches single or stacked but this is the first odd shaped cake. from the pic i think i might get away with it as a square if i do the book mark and the carving right - heres hoping!!

If this is the picture they gave, I'd assume they want it to look like a book - I don't think a square will. Two 10's side by side seemed like the best suggestion.