How To Make Pillow Cakes

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Mommy and Baby Princess Crown Cake
(How to Make a Pillow Cake)

This princess crown cake has not only 1, but two crowns for the two princesses honored in a babe shower - one for mommy and one for baby.

Princess Crown Cake

When I was told that the political party was princess theme and that they wanted to accept two crowns on the cake, I immediately idea of making a pillow cake. How much more than imperial tin you get when you present a crown on a pillow?

I ran into some difficulty when I was making this cake. It was not because of the cake itself but rather what was going on exterior my house. There were howling air current gusts up to 100 km/hour that night and it brought nearly a full black out in our surface area. It was night and with only a few candles to give me light, I had to summon my inner ninja in able to finish this cake.

Although, thank goodness, everything went smoothly, making the colours was indeed challenging. I had readymade colours, and I would call up that I got the pink one, but when I bring it near the candle, I would find out information technology was yellow! I really wanted this block to be a soft pink, and so I had to be extra conscientious in adding the coloring so I won't get a bubblegum neon kind of pink. I was actually scared to see the cake in daylight the adjacent mean solar day.

All in all, I was pretty happy in how this cake turned out. Mommy was pretty stoked likewise, which made all the working in the dark worth it for me.

I actually wanted to make a video of how this block was fabricated from start to end but with the black out, it was hard to film in the dark! I was able to film the carving and frosting function merely alas the lights went out on me later on that.

How to Make a Pillow Block

With a lilliputian fleck of carving, pillow cakes can be very easy to make. For this cake, I used 1 recipe of yellow cake and one recipe of chocolate block and baked in 9" square pan.

I stacked them together with filling of raspberry buttercream in between and I placed a smaller cake board (7" square) underneath.

I started by etching each side of the cake on a 45 degree angle on both the acme part and the lesser part of the cake. Then I only sort of smoothed out whatsoever precipitous edges on the top of the cake. For the lesser role, I like the abrupt edges on the each corner.

Then I nibble coated the cake with some buttercream to seal in the crumbs, at that place were a lot due to the etching. Then I added another glaze of buttercream right abroad, no demand to air-condition in between. I find that with this type of frosting that I use, IMBC, if it gets too cold during crumbcoat and then information technology starts sweating. Then the second layer sometimes simply slides and won't stick to the block. I use articulate plastic acetate to smooth out the frosting on the rounded top role of the cake.

I allow the cake prepare and harden in the refrigerator for nigh an hour.

I then prepared the cake board. I spread some clear piping jelly on the board, rolled out some white fondant. I wanted the pillow to look like that it was prepare on material, so I fabricated some creases and folds on the fondant while gently laying information technology on the board.

I covered the cake in pink fondant existence conscientious especially when it came to the lesser office of the cake to avoid whatsoever creases. With the assistance of a ruler and a veining tool, I marked criss-crossing diagonal lines. To make the pillow looked quilted, I used the aforementioned veining to make cross marks on each betoken where the lines would see. I then added a small pearl brawl in the centre and fabricated information technology stick with some edible mucilage.

Pillow cake

I used an extruder and the clover shaped dice to make ii lines of piping and the bows for each corner of the cake. To create bow, I fabricated the top loop part of the bow first and let it dry out a bit. Then I made the tail separately and added that to the cake correct abroad.

Mommy and baby Princess Crown cake How to make a Pillow cake

For the rattle, I rolled a ball of fondant and let information technology dry out on a bed of cornstarch. Doing information technology this way will keep the shape of the ball rounded rather than having on side where it is resting to be apartment. I extruded a apparently long piece and twisted the top part. I permit it dry separately. I used a blossom cutter to make the lesser part of the rattle where the handle volition be attached. I used imperial icing to attach the pieces. I also decided to brand a small bow just to amp upwardly the cuteness factor.

So equally finishing touches, added some rolled fondant flowers and leaves here and there.

I will write another mail service and mayhap even a video on how I made the crowns for this cake. I employ imperial icing to stick the crowns to the cake.

How to make fondant baby rattle

And that is it, a crown cake fit for two princesses.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Sweet regards,

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