Help Covering Cake With Slice Cut Out
Decorating By londonpeach Updated 1 Mar 2009 , 4:07pm by Rose_N_Crantz
I would like to make a cake with a slice cut out and placed on top of the cake...i've seen so many lovely ones on this site.
I want to cover it in fondant and would like some advice on which is the best way to cover it...should I cover the top and sides before the middle of the cake (where the slice is missing) or the other way round.
Any ideas please 
Someone must be able to give me some tips pleeeeeese
I'm not very experienced so don't actually know the best way to do this, but, having seen some cakes of the type you're talking about, the cut out bit & then the top & sides would be my first thought, then the join between the 2 pieces wouldn't be so obvious as it would be in the cut out
Or maybe, do it all in one & when it comes tothe cut out, cut along the icing into the triangle where the cut out is, then you should be able to do it without any more joins I think
Hope that makes sense 
I'll just give it a go, it's only a practise cake so it don't matter what it looks like 
I had a 1x8 round cake leftover from a cake that i did this weekend. I decided to cut it in half then half again to make 4 quarters. i stacked 2 quarters on top of each other to make 2 - 2" tall cake slices. i wasn't sure how to approach covering the cake, so I first covered the whole thing, then wrapped the sides, but looking back, I think it would have been better for me to do the "inside" of the cake, then the outside. But they turned out fairly well.
I have done one of the cakes in the past and I believe I covered the whole cake with fondant...then with a clean serrated knife, I cut my slice out. I then iced the slice and the place of the cake that I cut my slice out with buttercream. I cut a piece of fondant and then attached it to those places and trimmed it clean. I hope this makes sense...it's kinda hard to explain! Good Luck!
Thanks for the help, niccicola your cakes look great.
I have to admit I chickened out 
I'm taking the cake into work as i've been off for a few weeks and they bought me some nice gifts.....anyway, I work with about 15-20 people but we have a lot more people coming in and out....maybe 50-70 and if it turned out really bad I would be soooo
I've just iced it and I will decorate tomorrow but I will definately ty the slice cake soon...when it's just for family
I have done one of the cakes in the past and I believe I covered the whole cake with fondant...then with a clean serrated knife, I cut my slice out. I then iced the slice and the place of the cake that I cut my slice out with buttercream. I cut a piece of fondant and then attached it to those places and trimmed it clean. I hope this makes sense...it's kinda hard to explain! Good Luck!
that makes perfect sense, though I know if I tried it I would have some issues with reicing the cut parts. But like every other caking technique, practice makes perfect!
Quote by @%username% on %date%
%body%
