Shoe on a cake!!!! Help

chillerman

Hi. just wondering if any body can help. Its my daughters 18th birthday and my wife has decided to decorate the top of the cake with a moulded shape or outline of a "high heeled shoe"!!! Now does any body know if there is a shape cutter I might be able to get or has any body any other ideas? Thanks in advance
ps I live in the oxford area.

postingalwaysposting

I would personally ask a baker to make one for her (a cake maker), then you can add it to the top of the cake yourself. Here is an idea http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/5365182_92fcb3869b.jpg but they can make very simple ones too i expect... this picture is from google, bet there are others more suitable on there

julesgr

I hire cake tins in all shapes and sizes for about £2 from my local sugarcraft shop might be worth seeing if there is something similar near you.

Alternatively print out a shape from a picture and cut round it as a template.

postingalwaysposting

opps didnt relise you wanted it 2d not 3d

Gingernutmeg

You can buy a sort of 'stiletto' shaped mould for sugarpaste/chocolate from cake decorating shops - I think it's a Wilton product and any Wilton stockist should be able to get it in for you. Alternatively you can buy it online here - it comes in various sizes so there should be one to suit (I think the large one would be best if you're using it to mould sugarpaste) I once made a Ruby Slippers cake for a Wizard of Oz fan using these moulds and it looked lovely!

celyn90

The cake shop in the covered market in oxford city cetre will probably make one for you if you go in and ask - I think they do bespoke models. cel x

HopeElizzy

The picture postingalwaysposting put up is a good idea...... you could make a shoe box cake quite easily as it's just an iced oblong shape then use a real shoe on the top (clean of course)

HopeElizzy

Or....
just realised you could do what I did yesterday and get some sugar icing pens and draw a picture on a piece of icing and place on the cake.
I had to do Stephanie from Lazy town for dd and this is the result.....

upferret

http://www.simondunnschocolates.co.uk/

What about these chocolate shoes? There is a simondunn shop near to me and their chocolate is lovely. I think one of these shoes is about £9 without delivery, or maybe there is a choclotier near to you?

muz

here you go......
http://www.cakecentral.com/article69-How-to-Make-A-Gumpaste-Shoe.html

torbrex

I do not profess to be an expert on this subject so I asked someone who does things like this for a living, here is his suggestion.

Take a shoe of the approximate size and shape that you want and cover it with greaseproof paper, keeping the paper as smooth as you can. Then using piped icing, 'do' one half of the shoe, following the contours as best you can creating a skeleton then cross hatch to give the appearance of a 'glass slipper'. When icing has dried and hardened, carefully remove the 'half' shoe then repeat process on the other half.
He said as a guide you could mark the paper where the lines end on the first half so that when you do the second you will have a starting point. You join the two halfs together with a little wet icing.

I remember my mother doing stuff like this years ago, her speciality was hand woven baskets to put small sugar eggs in at easter.