Am I Setting Myself Up For A Cake Carving Nightmare?
Decorating By hil86 Updated 6 Oct 2014 , 6:31pm by cakebaby2
AHello! Hobby baker here, about to start a purse cake for my friend. I have minimal carving experience but enough to understand that using cakes that have nuts or chocolate chips etc. is a no no when carving. My friend really wants pumpkin chocolate chip cake, but before telling her that it won't work I had an idea that I'd like a little feedback on. I thought that I could pour my batter into my pans without chips, and then carefully add chips toward the center of the pans mixing very carefully. I'm hoping that as I go to carve, mostly on the edges I won't hit very many chips. The few that I do hit I was thinking I could patch with a mixture of cake and buttercream. Cake spackle as I call it! Has anyone out there ever tried something like this, and if so, how did it go? Any thoughts??
You can do a purse cake that has very little carving like this one http://cakejournal.com/tutorials/how-to-make-a-purse-cake/
AI have made a cake like the one posted by Goreti, it was really east to do.
If you need a bigger cake I would try: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/163044448979844345/
It looks hard because of the wine bottle, flowers and extra decore but the cake itself is very easy to make. It is basically a rectangle cake with rounded edges. I was suprised how easy it was to make this cake.
well i guess it was a hit -- toys, personalized bib, fuzzy teddy bear with a bow tie no less, bottle, pacifier, is that a lamb there etc.-- chevrons and quilting -- i mean dooney & bourke doesn't put any more detail in their handles than you put in yours -- looks like the only thing you missed was a towel with baby spit up on it 
that is outstanding -- you outdid yourself
and fwiw while i can't actually remember sculpting anything with choco chips or nuts in it -- i would not hesitate to do a sculpture with chippy, nutty, lumpy cake
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