AHello I'm new to thinks like this and I need help I'm making a cake for my friend it's going to a straw hat cake (one piece straw hat ) and I was wondering how I could make it look like it ? Please help

you could pipe it in a basket weave pattern

or you could press a texture mat against fondant to get the straw looking hat surface

or you could use a paring knife to make hatch marks on either buttercream or fondant to get that look

then when you color over it it will take on the appreance of straw

When I did this one:

http://cakecentral.com/g/i/2375336/a/2376336/this-was-the-first-mothers-day-since-my-mother-passed-away-last-august-we-got-together-to-celebrate-the-day-with-our-children-and-i-made-this-cake-in-remembrance-of-my-mothers-love-of-gardening-the-cake-was-lemon-layered-with-american/

I used a mat like this as an impression mat on the fondant:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002D48YSQ/?tag=cakecentral-20

The hardest part was getting the center of the fondant to center correctly on the cake. 

ACakeyouVeryMuch,

That at is just awesome!

Thank you.  I was always kind of sad that this particular cake didn't garner any comment when I first posted it.  Probably had more to do with when I posted it.

Again, thank you for your comment.

A

So this! I was just talking about that the other day. I once posted a cake that was gone in less than a minute. No one ever even saw it.

AThank you everyone for your help but I failed at it and its to late thanks any way :)