Photo Gallery: Bag more decorated cake sales

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1. Use a quarter sheet cake to create a sculpted purse cake. Stack the layers and trim into a purse shape.
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2. Crumb ice the sculpted cake, and use dowels to keep the layers in place.
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3. Prepare a cake board with black fondant and cover the edges with a dark pink ribbon. Cover the cake with white fondant, and place it in the center of the prepared cake board.
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4. Sheet black fondant, and use a cutter to make curvy strips of random widths and lengths.
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5. Dampen the white fondant, and place the black strips all around the sides of the cake, creating a zebra-striped bag.
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6. Sheet pink fondant, and cut a strip about 1ﾽ ins. wide and 36 ins. long. Use a quilting tool to emboss the edges of the strip.
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7. Use water to attach the pink strip of fondant to the bottom of the purse.
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8. Cut a semi-circle out of sheeted pink fondant.
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9. Drape the semi-circle over the top of the bag to create the purse flap, and use a quilting tool to emboss the edges of the flap
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10. Airbrush iridescent pearl color over the entire cake.
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11. Use a cut paper tube to pipe white curlicues on the cake board in front of the purse.
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12. Make slits in the top of the cake, one on each side of the purse flap. Use a knife to push one end of a black ribbon into the slit. Place the other end of the ribbon in the other slit to create the purseﾒs strap.
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13. Use a cut paper tube to pipe white details on the top of the purse below the strap. Cut a small square, about 1-in. by 1-in., of black fondant, and use the quilting tool to emboss the two vertical sides. Use water to attach the square to the bottom of the flap for the purseﾒs clasp.
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14. Use tip No. 124 to pipe pink, upside-down roses on a flower nail, and place the roses on the piped curlicues on the cake board. (The flowers will look more like a swirl than a rose.) Use a v-shaped cut paper tube to pipe green leaves around the roses.
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15. With tip No. 9, pipe white five-petal flowers at the base of the purseﾒs strap. Pipe pink spiral centers and green leaves. Use a cut paper tube to pipe a message on the purseﾒs flap in black icing. Sprinkle glitter over the cake board to finish the design.