Stiletto Pump shoe cake
I know a lot of you have done this before so I thought I'd toss it out there for some ideas:
I have to make a cake in the shape of a shoe for Sunday to feed 25. No fondant. The shoe itself should be cake covered in butter cream, and it may be sitting on top of a shoe box.
My main questions are:
How have you done the heel? I was thinking of doing cake about an inch square by seven inches or so with a narrow dowel up the middle.
What have you put between the heel and the toe to hold the middle of the shoe up?
Answers to these questions as well as any other feedback or suggestions would be appreciated!
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Permalink Reply by Theresa Happe on
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Does the shoe have to be cake? Gum paste would be easier.
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Permalink Reply by JJ Becker on
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:) indeed, lots of things would be easier but yeah, cake and butter cream only for this.
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Permalink Reply by Rachael Faulkner on
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I've never made something like that before, but could you use a plastic piece and shape it as the support (you know, heat it up and bend it in the right position)? Think of it as a high priced, fancy stilleto. They use colored soles a lot of times and they shouldn't be upset with that because the base cake will be on a cake board, same thing here. Then your dowel rod would have something to go through as well for the heel. Good luck!
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Yeah that's sort of what I was thinking. What kind of plastic would you recommend?
Rachael Faulkner said:
I've never made something like that before, but could you use a plastic piece and shape it as the support (you know, heat it up and bend it in the right position)? Think of it as a high priced, fancy stilleto. They use colored soles a lot of times and they shouldn't be upset with that because the base cake will be on a cake board, same thing here. Then your dowel rod would have something to go through as well for the heel. Good luck!
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I'm not sure. I keep trying to think of something that comes with a plastic backing that would be thin enough to mold but thick enough to support the weight. Truth be told I'd probably go to the local Home Depot/Lowes and ask for a thin piece of fencing that I could clean up or the plumbing section. Or the local Hobby Lobby and run through the craft/jewlery area and see what they have.
Just had a thought, it might be far fetched and not workable but hey, worth a shot. Fondant and Gum paste harden pretty good. What if you took like chicken wire (very plyable but sturdy) and covered it top and bottom with a 50/50 (at least, maybe more gum paste) gum paste/fondant mixture? Then you could make it exactly as you want (size and thickness, might even make it a platform pump). Chicken wire is light so the wieght would only be from the fondant and gum paste, and it would work like a board and still let you be all butter cream and cake. Maybe lay it over a bowl with part of it laying on the counter (for the flat part of the sole) to dry in the right shape? I hope this is a decent idea and not to far fetched for you.
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Permalink Reply by Sweet Cakery (Midori) on
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I've never made a cake in the shoe shape, but I would use rice crispy to shape the heel with a support in the middle, then cover that with buttercream.
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Permalink Reply by Dawn Becker on
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You want to make the heel 1" wide. Don't forget, a stiletto is no thicker than a pencil most of the way down, and absolutely at the bottom. To scale the shoe to need a 1" wide stiletto heel, that's gonna be a huge cake. In a proper size stiletto, by the time you add the dowel up the heel, you've kind of lost the use of the heel as in eating it - so not sure why it has to be cake at all. You can make it with gumpaste or RKTs and then ice it with BC. But I honestly think what it's made out of is a moot point due to how thin it is and how inedible it will be after you stick a dowel in it - if it will even allow a dowel after being so thin.
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Permalink Reply by Bonnie Amanda Fuller on
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I would make a support system. Like shape plastic in the shape of a shoe. That will play as the cake board. For the heel just cover a dowel with frosting and attach to the plastic.
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Use 1/4 inch piece of plastic b/c you can heat it up and mold it.
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Thanks all... I ended up moulding and carving the heel and the back of the shoe out of chocolate http://www.cakeswebake.com/photo/shoe1-1?context=user
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