Life A Dream

Rose Shaped Cake !!

17 May 2011 4 Comments

by lifeadream in Baking, Creativity, Do It Your Self Tags: How to make rose shaped cake, Rose, Rose shaped Cake

Cake in the Shape of Rose !! – Can you bake one ?

It was during the season of tulips, when one of my brother came to me and said –“ I have a surprise party for your sis-in-law’s birthday which is arriving soon, can you bake a cake for the day ?”.

I was so delighted I said – absolutely, what kind of cake do you have in mind.

He said I need something in the shape of a flower, how about a Rose.

If we got to think A cake in the shape of rose , it sounds how can one make that. Well it sounds impossible but isn’t. At first even I was thinking how will I bake and craft this cake. I was thrilled with his idea but on the other side I was a little tensed (actually very tensed ) thinking I have said yes to bake, but how will I .

Since these days baking and trying out new craft is my new passion, I thought why not give a try . With the spirit of baking and excitement I said to him, count me in.

I started searching online for Rose shaped Cakes. At first I found cakes with roses on it, which he dint approve of. Then I found two cakes made in the shape of rose. Among which he liked one, and so did I. Phew it was one heck of a search. Took me long to find out. I did find out the picture, but I was not able to get the instructions – how to make the cake. Now I was in trouble again, lots of sleepless nights thinking of how to work on. At last the day before the event arrived. Seeing me trying so hard, my sweet hubby agreed to lend me some hand, since he is good with designing as seen in the Cricket Bat cake, I had no worries anymore ..

After a long thought of how to make this cake we started –

First we cut a layout of the bud on a cardboard measuring the cake pan, mine was 8”x3” round cake pan. As we see while making a gumpaste rose, the bud is 1/3rd of the petals,so we also cut the layout of the bud measuring the same assuming that when we craft it , it is 1/3rd of the round petals.

Baked a 8”x3” Round cake- Mango Eggless Cake and cooled it for two hours in refrigerator to set.

Once the cake was cooled, We crafted it to the shape of a bud, using a seriated knife. Later placed it on a round cake board and covered it with butter cream icing.

Now Roll out some Red fondant mixed with white gum paste (50:50). This time I used Satin Ice fondant. I pre-ordered the colors white and red from www.globalsugarart.com , it made my work lot easier. A little expensive but worth it.

Cut out big round shape petals; I used my storage round box as the cutter (like the Pyrex round box).

We did lots of trial and error atlas we decided to cut out the petals first and then set it on to the cake just as how the gumpaste rose is made. We cut approx 12 petals for this cake. It was difficult at first to set the petals. It took us more than 2 hrs to figure out how to keep up the shape of the petals, Since it was half fondant and half gum paste it took long time to dry , but eventually after a while it dried. (Note : If you trying this cake, make your petals thinner in size,dont be afraid to fold it, once all the petals have been placed you can curve it as you want, mine where a little thicker, so took lot of time to dry). I used folded tissue sheets to insert between each petal  to keep the shapes of the petals overnight.

I added Brown ropes

Leaves to give it a beautiful touch, I also covered the board with green fondant

And added an extra leaf for the message – “A Rose for a Rose”

Finally, my cake was ready – Tada –

Phew one difficult cake of all times. At the end It was fun to make this cake . The final cake weighed 3.5lbs, Width – 8” height – 10” Tall…

Hence, this was the story of my rose project Hope you enjoyed, if you need any info on this cake dont hesitate to ping me.. until next time Happy Baking and Keep Smiling