WOW, when I first looked at the pic I thought it was a real basket!
WOW!!!
Iwas waiting for the cake basket to come up!! but I guess thats it! WOW! thats all I can say- is WOW. I am amazed, and SOO jealous, I know I will never have that talent.
Thanks all! You will be surprised that it didn't take as long as I thought!
I started with 4 - 9" rounds. Stacked and shaped to be a bit narrower at the bottom.
I took my brown fondant & ribbon cutter and cut about 2 inch strips first and put them vertically around the cake, about .5 in apart. Then, I cut thinner strips, about 5" long and then alternated them over the thicker pieces. Where the ends of the thin strips touch the thicker, I pushed them into the cake so it looked like the strips were weaved under. It's a bit hard to explain, but hopefully you get the idea.
The apples were red fondant and I "glazed" them with vodka tinted w/red gel coloring.
The handle didn't last too long - I need to work on making a more stable handle.
For the actual weaving part, it only took 2 hours. The entire cake took about 4-5 hours.
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