I made this Coolest Kilt Cake for my sister and her husband who are moving to Scotland. I began by making five thin 1/2 sheet cakes (using 1 box of cake mix per pan). I froze each one so that when assembling the cake they would be easier to handle and carve into the desired shape.
I made buttercream icing and layered the cakes with icing between. I cut one of the cakes into 4 long triangles and used it to flare out the bottom of the cake. I frosted the whole cake and placed it back in the freezer.
I used fondant to cover the cake and tinted all the colors I needed. I made the chains, belt buckle and sword pin out of gray fondant painted them with silver pearl dust mixed with vodka. Before painting the pieces I pressed them into various things to achieve the texture and pattern desired (I used metal watch bands, jewelry, etc.).
I used a pasta maker to shape the fondant into spaghetti strands to make the plaid. I attached these strips with a thin strip of thinned buttercream icing. I made a small batch of Rice Krispie bars and cut them the shape of the sporran (pouch) and then covered this with icing and fondant. I textured the sporran and belt fondant to look like leather by rolling onto crumpled waxed paper. I made the fringe on the sporran by using Twizzlers red Pull and Peel licorice painted with black food color paste.
I bought a full sheet cake box and mat at the grocery store to store the cake. It fit in this box perfectly! This is my coolest cake yet!!
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Dear Amy..
I’m glad to see you are finally getting your talent out for the world to view!
I think the Queen would giggle over this cake, and you might be asked to come visit her just due to her wonderment of whom holds these talents! Serious, get her a picture of this cake!!!!!! Keep me posted. Once again, great job! Susan.
Really neat cake. Is that the Royal Stewart Tartan?
Looks superb!!
Yes, it is a vague copy of Royal Stewart. It was harder than I thought to make plaid so I didn’t use all the colors (green, more black) for the plaid. Thanks for the comments!
what a great cake,love the chain for the sporran,was it difficult to do?fantastic x
The chain was a little difficult to make. I had to hand roll fondant into rings and join them together. I tried to use cheerios (which I could color silver later) but they kept breaking when I cut them. Thanks for checking out my cake!