Question About Making A Flip Flop Cake
Decorating By firehorse Updated 31 Jul 2009 , 1:32am by cheatize
I've been looking at some pics of flip flop cakes on here and I'd like to try to make one for a pool party I'm going to this Sunday.
This may be a dumb question, but I was wondering the order of events for making the shape - do you fill and stack the layers first then cut? Or do you cut each layer then fill?
Any suggestions for making this easy would be much appreciated. I don't have much experience with cutting cakes!
Thanks in advance.
R.
Flip flops help thread you might find useful:
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-297093.html
HTH
I do what the other posters said. Fill/stack first, then carve so both layers will be identical size/shape. It's not difficult to make a flip flop shape. I carved mine freehand. You'll be fine. 
Good luck!
I haven't filled mine, they are tall enough without it...that is unless you are using a filling!
Here is the templete i use!
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I made a template out of wax paper then cut after they were stacked with the buttercream filling. I copied a new flip flop and kept enlarging it on my copier to get the size I needed.
ginger
they are in my photos, I have a couple of them...
I traced my own foot , and used that as a template, and mine came out pretty good the first time I made one.
I didn't fill mine, but I did find a template online. They're pretty easy to do. I've only done the zebra print one in my photos, but I'd love to try some more.
http://www.bettycrocker.com/NR/rdonlyres/2B9921D9-CADA-45B9-B0A3-2AD559B87070/0/flipflop_cake_instruction.pdf
I got two out of a 9x13 cake, just turn the template over and the opposite way on the cake for the other foot, they both can fit on one cake, I never torted mine yet. and just cut out around your template.
That's what I do, however- the first time I made these I forgot to flip the templet lol!
I actually cut mine first and then filled... With the fillings I used, there's no way I could do it any other way. I have to use a stiff icing dam (thanks, Sugarshack) to keep the filling from seeping out, so you pretty much have to cut and then fill.
Check this link out. It has a cool tutorial for making the flip flop cake and other cool things.
http://www.how2cakes.com/thongs.html
Normita, what a cool site that was, thanks, now I know how to make the flip flops in layers. Thank you.
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