Designer bag cake part 2

If you remember, it was only a short while ago when was totally obsessed with designer purse cakes of all varieties. Well finally I got round to spending a few hours in practicing decorating a cake. I love the Chanel classic quilted collection of bags, so attempted to make the Chanel Cambon but with pink icing instead of the original black logo. Also, I did have a practice run first, making a small Chanel quilted purse/wallet in pink icing. As I didn't have the right tools) and given that i have no skills/experience whatsoever) I didn't have much option but to leave out some of the finer details, either way I am pleased with how both have turned out.
I do want to thank Adjoa of Pretty Sweet Boutique for her offering her tips in decorating with fondant, she's a pro in Chanel purse cakes! My good gal pal reckons the smaller cake looks like a super posh version of tissue box - hilarious! Oh well more practice then!

I ended up using a flat knife to make the quilted effect then put it over the choc & cream cake.

I used a cup to cut the circle shape out then used a pen knife to cut the C by hand as I couldn't find a smaller round shape.

It's missing a few details and the shape isn't quite right, but it does look yummy though, no?

First practise run with a smaller bit of fondant.

I cut separate pieces of fondant then sealed/smoothed out the edges with a bit of water.

Et voila! Vive Chanel!

I added a bit of piping to the edges too.

Best pick of designer bag/purse cakes

Now the techniques and design of the following cakes are the ones i admire most. I have spent some time scouring the internet for some of the best looking cakes. A lot of time and effort has gone into these beautiful looking cakes. If I have not included yours and you think it looks realistic and incredibly fabulous, do submit your images! I'd love to show them off here.
Enjoy!

All images via: flickr, Ashley's Cakes, Cake Create, House of Cakes, Pretty Sweet Boutique, cupcakeenvy.com, Studio Cake, tineypics, Alexandra Bolos Artisticos

So with all these amazing inspirations, I'd like to one day achieve decorating a purse cake with the skill and expertise as above. I have absolutely no background in cake making/baking/decorating whatsoever, so this shall be an interesting experiment!

Designer bags/purse cakes

Right, i'm on a mission this week. I've never used sugar/fondant icing to decorate a cake let alone decorate a cake. I'm the newbie who's a part of Paradise Kitchen you see and I don't really get involve with the baking process as much as I'd like to. However, I certainly won't stop getting creative. As a massive fan of Eric Lanlard, French Patissier extraodinaire, who own Cake Boy and also Savoir Designs, I've certainly been lucky enough to taste and check out his rather fabulous cakes and cake designs. All I can say is Wow!
He is also current doing a show on Channel 4 (UK) called GLAMOUR PUDS, sounds delicious! More of him another time, but for now, my current obssession lies with cake decorating and designer bag cakes. I'm talking Chanel Cambon tote bag cakes, LV multicolore speedy bag, Chanel 2.55 bag cake... I wanna get my mitts on making or at least decorating a designer cake bag.
Exciting stuff indeed with more photo examples to follow too! Hold your horses i'll be back later today.

Image via Pretty Sweet Boutique

image via Pink Cake Box

These amazing cake designs are from rather skilled and talented cake bakers/decoraters from Pink Cake Box and also Pretty Sweet Boutique. Their cakes are truly spot on in terms of design, accuracy and I bet they taste damn good too! I just want to know what tool they used for the quilting effect on the Chanel 2.55 bag. I've seen other styles of beautiful stitching effect too so very curious indeed.