How To Make A Man's Shoe Cake

antonia74 Posted 10 Jun 2005 , ane:34am

- I made three layers of block in nine" ten thirteen" pans, cut them apartment and so filled them. I stacked them and put them in the freezer for a few hours to get prissy and solid.
- meanwhile, take a man's running shoe (by and large wider and larger than a women'south) and trace it onto paper or wax paper. Cut the shape out. Remove frozen cake from freezer and using the shoe template, cut out the outline with shine strokes downward all 3 layers of block. Remove the scraps.
- using a good serrated knife (steak knives are bang-up because the teeth are close together!) cleave the shoe's shape. I angled the heel ever then slightly inwards, carved the meridian downwards towards the toes and angled the sides too. I left the top flat (where your foot would get in).
-coat the cake in a sparse layer of buttercream for the fondant to stick to
-I froze the block once again for a few hours, so using white rolled fondant, I covered the block completely while it was still frozen. (I get out my cakes out overnight at this point to let for the fondant to ready and dry a bit. In the morning I trim the edges again because there is usually backlog from information technology "settling".) I dyed the extra fondant orangish and rolled it out onto my 12" cake lath.
- to attain the shoe'due south design, I used my paste nutrient colourings diluted with only a few drops of water to make them into painting consistency. I fabricated the shoe's top all black, wrote the brand name on the shoe'due south "natural language" expanse and did the striping on the sides. I used the aforementioned black to brand the basketball game's lines on the cake board.
- finally, I made a stiff royal icing and piped on the laces in a crisscross design with a flat pipe tip shape. The letters were cut from fondant & stuck on with a scrap of h2o.

I think that'southward all I tin can call back...good luck with your cakes!!

17 replies

AgentCakeBaker Posted 10 Jun 2005 , 1:47am

Thanks for posting the instructions. I tin't expect to try this.

veejaytx Posted 10 Jun 2005 , 2:09am

Thanks Antonia, your cake looks swell! Janice

melissablack Posted ten Jun 2005 , 2:17am

Your cake looks so bang-up! I think I'd be agape to try it.. it sounds then hard to make. Adept job.

Melissa

Cakemaker Posted 10 Jun 2005 , 2:25am

Wow! That's amazing! I'm with Melissa that one, I'm scared to try it too. You did a wonderful job.

nernan Posted 10 Jun 2005 , six:24am

how did you het the blackness then black on the shoe

antonia74 Posted ten Jun 2005 , 12:33pm

No, attempt it everyone! If your cake is frozen it'due south really simple to fondant! I don't think I added the tip that the cake should be nibble-coated in buttercream as well...perhaps I'll go back and add that info in.

The black is ever-so-slightly diluted black food colouring paste. You can also use the powder format mixed to a paste consistency with alcohol or extract. It works merely as well.

Thanks!!