Hi, My daughters BD is just around the corner , and i would love to make her a shoe box cake, Baked last night and froze it, Now i need to do the high heel shoe, I have no forms, What could i use to prop it up with until it dries?? I will have to hand cut the fondant and so on, any info will help,
Thanks everyone Oh i want the shoe pretty big almost life like

Buy a cheap pair of heels, and cover with saran wrap to use as a former.

Search You Tube. I believe I saw a video where they propped it up with a block of styrofoam the height they wanted the heel and then let if flop to the front.

In fact a piece of styrofoam or floral block and you can carve it to the shape you want yourself too.

I had a tupperware container that was the perfect height for my shoe. Just flipped it upside down and put the gumpaste shoe sole heel on it and the toe on the table to dry. Worked perfectly!

I made a former out of styrofoam...the floral type that's easy to cut.

I used fondant with tylose powder in it.

Fondant will not dry as nice as the gumpaste will. I would either use all gumpaste or 50/50 (fondant/gumpaste) - especially since the cake is just a few days out.

You might try this site: http://www.how2cakes.com/shoe.html

Check out this Pink Cake Box tutorial:
http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/category/videos/tutorials

Wow Thanks Guy's this info is great, Knew i could count on CCer's

Here's a tutorial that uses a clear 2-liter soda bottle to form the shoe (scroll down): http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-make-gumpaste-high-heel-shoe.html