Thank heavens for this website - can anyone advise me as to how to go about making a baseball cap cake for my husbands 50th? I am kinda jumping into the deep end here but so want to do this for him.
Any and all advise would be most welcome.
Thanks
Bee
On my photos I have a pic of a cake that I made a ball cap for, I used ricekrispy treats that I formed in a bowl for the cap then used gumpaste to make the brim, covered in marshmallow fondant then hand painted the logo on it. You could do something like that on a sheet, or get an oven safe bowl that is shaped like the cap part and bake cake in that and use gumpaste for the brim.
I am going to attempt one this week also - I want it to be cake though, so I am stacking 3 -8" layers together and carving them. I am going to make the brim out of 50/50 - and form it over a saran wrapped covered actual hat to make it take the shape I want. Send good cake vibes my way please!
I have until Thanksgiving to get my Mojo on. If you have the money, Elisa Strauss's Confetti Cakes for Kids has a baseball cap cake with detailed instructions in it. It's basically baking several layers of round cake and then carving it into the shape of a cap. You'd use gumpaste to make the brim and leave it to dry over like a paper towel roll to give it that curved look. And then attach it to the cake. If I dont make sense pm me. I have the book.
If you have the money, Elisa Strauss's Confetti Cakes for Kids has a baseball cap cake with detailed instructions in it.
I'm pretty sure you can check this book out at the library.
I made a small one where I baked the cake in a stainless steel bowl, carved creases in it and covered in fondant, used 50/50 fondant /gumpaste to make the bill.
Good Luck!
I think the Wilton Sports Ball pan instruction sheet has instructions for making a baseball cap - you just bake 1 half of the pan rather than both halves. This would be a modestly small cake as 1 cake mix fills both halves, but you get the nice round top and flat bottom for the body of the cap.
I have the bill made and it is drying as we speak. His favorite hats are the ones that look "frayed" so I took an exacto knife and kind of "shredded" the edge of the bill in several places.....so far so good! I will be baking the cake on Sunday - stil haven't decided on that now, 3 -8" or the pyrex bowl (don't have a stainless one).
sounds like you have a great start! I made mine with the Wilton ball pan...just made one half. Then I had a large thick cardboard tube...like the kind that wrapping paper comes around, but really big - came from a roll of industrial shrink wrap. But I cut part of that and bent it a bit flatter, covered it in a thin layer of corn syrup so it was sticky, then covered it in the fondant that matched the rest of the hat. Best of luck with it!
Thanks happybee - Good luck with your cake!
Since the Sox are out 
... I have to say Go Angels!! 
I am very happy with how mine turned out! I ended up using a 7" and a 6" and carved them into the shape I needed (I actually had 2 -6" ready to use, but it didn't look right!) I did the stitching and texturing on the fondant before putting it on the cap. It looked REAL!! My SIL was thrilled with it. You can't see it very well, but I "frayed" the edge of the bill with an exacto knife too.
Here is the finished product:
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