How to Make a Lady Hat Cake Topper or Cake

Описание: I made this Lady Hat Cake Topper for my Lady with a Hat birthday cake. It’s a simple but elegant hat made out of cake, covered with gum paste and decorated with fresh flowers.

You can find the detailed instructions at this link too - https://roxyskitchen.com/lady-hat-cak...

Also, check out the full video tutorial for the Lady with a Hat Cake to see how I made this cake -    • Lady with a Hat Cake Tutorial  

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Ingredients/Tools:

a dome cake baked in a 14 cm diameter x 6.5 cm depth (5.5 inch x 2.5 inch) hemisphere pan or oven-proof bowl; you can make this vanilla cake out of 1 egg only https://roxyskitchen.com/basic-cake-r...
a 12 cm (5 inches) round cake board to place the dome cake on
a few tablespoons of frosting - chocolate ganache or buttercream-based frosting
900 g (2 lbs) white gum paste or fondant mixed with 3.5 teaspoons Tylose or CMC Powder
rolling pin
corn starch or powdered sugar for dusting
X-acto knife or a very sharp knife
gel food colour of your choice to colour a bit of fondant to make the ribbon - for a burgundy colour mix two drops of red with 1 drop of blue
fresh flowers
plastic straws and/or extra large boba/bubble tea straws if the flower stems are thicker

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The hat brim should be at least 5 cm (2 inches) more in diameter than the cake you are making this hat topper for. For example, I made a 24 cm (9.5 inch) hat brim for an 18 cm (7 inch) round cake.

While I used this as a cake topper, if you want to make a Hat Cake, bigger than my topper, you can use the same technique. You can simply bake a bigger dome cake, add filling as well and make the hat brim wider. You can use the cake recipe from my Spider Cake to bake a bigger dome cake and fill it - https://roxyskitchen.com/spider-cake.... .
Then, just follow the steps in the video to make the brim, cover the hat crown with gum paste etc..

Note that the hat brim should be made out of gum paste so that it dries out faster… and rock hard. If you don’t have gum paste, you can also use regular fondant mixed with a bit of Tylose or CMC powder. The hat crown can be covered with regular fondant or gum paste.