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My niece’s birthday was coming so I thought I would make her a purse cake for her birthday. This is also a great idea for a bridal shower (for a purse obsessed bride-to- be). For this purse cake I have to say that I didn’t really go with one exact purse, but rather combined different elements of purse cakes and other cake details that I have seen and wanted to try out. I also tried to take some photos along the way so you could see how the basic structure is built. Hope you enjoy it!

My niece requested carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, so that is what I made. I baked the cake in two half-sheet pans and then cut each pan in three parts, so there was six layers in total. I layered the cake and at about four inches height I dowelled the cake and put my cardboard piece on so that the cake would be more stable. Then I stacked the cake a little more and started carving away until I got the shape I wanted.

I then frosted the cake in vanilla buttercream and let it set up in the fridge for a couple hours. Next I covered the cake with fondant in two stages so that I could get the ruffled effect.

Then I used a zipper mold to make the zipper and placed it in the middle of the cake.

To get the color I used a mixture of lemon extract, petal dust, and luster dust and painted the cake by hand. Then, I painted the accents gold.

For the final details, I scored the cake down the center and painted the lines gold and brown. Then I placed gold dragées up the center of the cake. To finish off the cake, I borrowed my sister’s broach and put it as the final detail. (I could’ve attempted to make one out of sugar, but didn’t have the time.)

Here are some pictures of the birthday girl and her cake: