how to support a tilting shuttlecock?
For my boyfriend I really would like to make a cake that look like a shuttlecock that just hit the ground, but is still kind of tilting towards the floor. Can you help me on the construction? How should I put together the support structure for such a cake?
I have been looking for tips and tutorials, but so far I didn’t found anything. Only one dead link.
Hope you can help me, would be awesome :D
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Got sent this from a cake friend on cake structures. Perhaps it can help.
http://youtu.be/8tgf6vkoOeY
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This is the way I did the waffle cake with the suspended syrup bottle. Buy some copper tubing at the hardware store, I think what I bought was 1/2" width opening. I used a double cake board, 2 boards glued together. Make a hole in the center of the two boards the same size as the diameter of the copper tubing. Bend one end of the tubing with a pair of pliers about 1 1/2" up the tube. Flatten that bent piece with a hammer. Feed the tubing up through the bottom of the board. Hot glue the flattened end under the bottom board, go back and forth in two directions over the bent part to make sure it is well sealed to the board. Let it cool and then cut the tubing to the length of the ball part of the shuttlecock, even a bit shorter so it won’t show. Wrap the tubing with a ribbon of fondant to seal it so it doesn’t touch the cake or you could use white floral tape. Slip the ball shaped cake over the straight end of the tubing and slide it down onto the cake board. Personally I would make the ball part of the cake larger than a real shuttlecock and make the feathers of gumpaste. Probably floral wire or toothpick the feathers while soft and allow to dry, then stick into the cake. Hope this makes sense and helps.
Shirley
