Hat Cake

Hat Cake

A lovely, fancy hat cake for your tea party or girl's night in.

cricut hat cake

The shapes for this cake are cut using the Provo Craft Cricut Cake machine and the Elegant Cakes cartridge.

Items Needed:

9" round cake pan
Doll cake pan
1 box cake mix
1 can frosting
1 batch fondant
Green, pink and blue gel food coloring
1/2 lbs. gum paste
Elegant Cakes cartridge (NOT the Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes cartridge)

Directions:

Mix cake according to directions on box and split between the two prepared cake pans (greased). Bake according to directions on box.

Remove cakes from pan and cool.

Mix most of the fondant green, and just a little pink to make the ribbon.

Place the round cake on a cake platter, cover with frosting and then green fondant. Trim the edges of the fondant around the base of the cake.

Cut white gum paste with a 10 3/4" <Accent 10> from the Elegant Cakes cartridge.

Brush the back of the shape with water and center the shape across the top of the covered round cake. Smooth around the sides fo the cake.

Frost the doll cake and cover with green fondant, trimming fondant around the base.

Then carefully set the doll cake on the center of the round cake.

Cut a strip (or two) from pink fondant. Use a ruler as your guide--cut the fondant on either side of the ruler.

Wrap the pink fondant around the base of the doll cake. Use a dab of frosting on the back of the pink ribbon to help it stick.

You may use two strips if you can't make as ingle strip long enough to go around the hat cake.

Cut a square from the pink fondant and place it over the ribbon in the front of the cake. (You can use it to hide a seam from the pink ribbon.

Top with a white gum paste 6 3/4" <Flower2> from the Elegant Cakes cartridge.

Again, brush the back with water to help it stick to the fondant on the hat cake.

Cut several white gum paste flowers at 2 1/4" using <Flowr2-s>.

Paint the flowers with food coloring. Use a clean food safe paintbrush and use a little gel food coloring mixed with a tiny bit of water to paint the flowers. (I was too lazy to mix and roll out an entire sheet of gum paste for each color of frosting for just one or two flowers.)

Now, take several pictures and then cover the hat cake with plastic wrap so it won't dry up.

Enjoy the Oohs and Aahs from your guests at your party.

Tips:

Use gel food coloring. Really. It's much better.
Use a pizza cutter to cut and trim the fondant and gum paste.
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