I am so sad! I made a beautiful fondant easter basket for a picnic with my family tomorrow and it is the first time I have made something just for us. What did I do? Made a fat twisted flower paste handle last night, let it harden all night and all day today, then this afternoon stuck it in the cake and well, it has broken in 2 places and is now too short to use at all!
I just KNEW it was too thick to dry in time and probably too heavy, but it looked SOOOO good! Now my basket has no handle and looks like a flowerpot instead!
I am so disappointed in myself, but don't see anyway of doing another to be dry by tomorrow morning.
WAAAA!

thats too bad maybe you could run to the fabric store tomorrow morning before the picnic and get a couple of lengths of thin (1/2") leather straps and attach those with royal icing? that would look cute i think. plus, i'm sure you only THINK it looks like a flowerpot.

Thanks, but most shops won't be open in time tomorrow being Easter Sunday and all that! Oh no!
I am wracking my brains trying to think if I could use foil and wind fondant around that or something?

edited: you might live on another continent than me. anyway, you could try the foil idea, or if you have masking tape you could make a handle out of that and wrap the fondant around that maybe?

I tried wrapping the fondant around masking tape and also around foil, but I couldn't get the same weave pattern that I had before which I have repeated around the top of the basket. I have just filled the middle part with flowers to hide where the handle squished everything when it fell and it still looks cute, but before it looked awesome! It is sooo disappointing when you have it and then it breaks! I might need to make some more grass too, as it still looks a little flattened!

Someone else on this site used a wire hanger bent in the shape of a handle, piped royal icing on it, let it dry (try the oven with the light on), then turn it over and pipe the over side, let it dry. Leave a few inches on each side of the handle unpiped so that you can stick it in the cake.

I'm sooo sorry that happened to you, but look on the bright side, at least it happend to you and not a paid order.. Now you'll know for the future on how long it takes to dry and such... I'm sorry, Is there a way you could tie some pretty ribbon to it to secure the handle together and then put a bow on the place that's broken?? I've never done a fondant handle like that so I'm not sure if it'll work.

good luck and don't fret i'm sure it's beautiful anyway. Post it so we can tell you that!! :0)