Small Cakes: Fancy Hats

Name: Small Cakes: Fancy Hats
Yield: Makes 7 hats
Ingredients: selection of ribbons, netting, dragees, feathers, braid and tiny silk flowers; 1 pot violet food colour paste; 700 g white sugarpaste; 1 pot black food colour paste; 5 × 7.5 cm thin round cake boards; 8 tbsp apricot jam, warmed and sieved; icing sugar, to dust; 2 × 10 cm thin round cake boards; 60 g bag white royal icing

Preparation info

Makes
7
hats

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Become a milliner and design your own hats in cake and icing. I have created a smart black-and-white hat fit for a race meeting or any wedding, a top hat, a cap, a trilby and summer boaters. Take these as a starting point and create your own range of exquisite headgear!

Ingredients

1 × 20 cm Victoria Sponge baked in 2 sandwich tins

Cake
Wedding/Marriage
Vegetarian
Baking
Summer

Method

Colour 100g of sugarpaste for the top hat, using the black and violet food pastes and seal in a polythene bag. Cut 1 of the 7.5cm cake boards down to 5cm diameter (you can’t buy 5cm cake boards!).

Dust all the cake boards with a little icing sugar and sprinkle with water. Make the rims of the hats: on a work top lightly dusted with icing sugar, an