I made this handbag cake from a rectangle cake, which I cut and layered. I then froze the cake and once frozen I carved the shape. For the board, I covered in icing as normal. I then got a stencil and painted Trex and silver powder to make the flower shapes. I impressed my friend’s … Read more
A lady sent me an email asking could I make this cake. The photo she sent was very blurred so I asked her to describe what she wanted. She replied back, a Victoria’s Secret shopping bag with make-up. The actual bag cake only took a couple hours to make and cover with fondant, using an … Read more
It’s soon my daughter’s birthday. I thought I’d make another handbag cake but a different look this time. And I wanted to incorporate things in her life that mean the world to her, this is what I did I had to do all the modelling first. I made the face and the legs of a pug … Read more
I was just sitting home one Saturday and decided to try making purse cakes. I remembered a YouTube site I had seen and decided to make my own. I baked a 6 inch round cake layer and cut it in half shaping it the way I wanted the hand bag to be. I iced each … Read more
I made this pink handbag cake for a friend’s niece. I started by making a 10 inch square cake. I cut it in half and stacked the two halves together sandwiched with butter cream and jam so that it was a tall cake. I carved the cake using templates then covered in butter cream to … Read more
I was asked to make a cake for my aunt’s 75th birthday and cousin. I decided to make a purse cake because I had just taken the Craftsy “Handbag” course by Ellisa Strauss. I followed her instructions but I still managed to carve more than I needed to carve off the cake and changed the … Read more
I first baked two 12″ round chocolate cakes for this purse cake. I put a paper thin coat of chocolate butter cream icing on each cake because my friend wanted raspberry jam filling, and I find the filling can sometimes makes the cake a little soggy when it’s made a few days in advance. I put some … Read more
First I had some fun creating some make-up, from Liquorice Allsorts, and chewy fruit sweets, a couple of orange matchmakers and some melted chocolate. The mascara end was dipped in chocolate then gently coaxed in chocolate strands to give the brush effect. The bag cake is a 9″ round sandwich cake with jam and butter cream filling. … Read more
This purse birthday cake was also another first for me. I did this one for a regular customer of mine at a grocery store where I worked. It was for a girl she worked with who was a total purse fanatic. I started out with a full sheet an just started cutting, shaping, basically hacking … Read more
This cake was made with the intention of it being 3D however, I felt I did not trust it. It was a Texas chocolate cake with a chocolate frosting. .. bad choice for a white fondant cover but it worked out. I lay the cake down and covered it. The chain and gold buckles were … Read more
This is a stacked cake made to look like a purse on the top. The bottom is a double layered cake covered in fondant with zebra stripes. The top cake is 2 – 4″ cakes shaped into a purse covered in fondant. The top of the purse cake is a wire formed and covered in … Read more
My daughter spends a great deal of her time and money in Victoria’s Secret and VS Pink Store. I decided about 8 months ago exactly what type of cake I wanted to make her for her birthday in March. I told her that I knew what cake I was going to make and how cool … Read more