Red Western Cowboy Hat Cake

It’s a Red Western Cowboy Hat Cake!    Does that even make sense?  Haha!    Probably not, but who cares?  You know what I mean!

Since I do lots of cowboy cakes, I’m going to keep this post short and sweet (famous last words) and just give you the bones of how I made it.  Okay?  Okay!

Here we go:

• The tiers are 6″ + 8″ round vanilla cake.    The top might have been chocolate cake… I have confusing notes on this one 😉
• It was filled and frosted with vanilla buttercream.
• The decorations were homemade marshmallow fondant and Satin Ice fondant (for the red, brown and black).

• To make the hat – you can use this How to Make a Cowboy Hat Cake Topper Tutorial.  This was my second cake that had a red hat.  You can see the first red hat I made here (and another variation of a cowboy cake).

• I don’t have a tutorial for the jeans, belt and buckle, but I can tell you that I use my FMM ribbon cutter, stitching tool, ball tool and silver luster dust (mixed with vodka) to do all the details on this tier.

• It’s not exactly the same, but you can read details about how to make a fondant bandana here.

• I used silver dragees on the corners of the sign.
• The texture was done with a wood grain mat.
• I used Fox Run Alphabet cutters to do Casen’s name.
• Everything was glued with homemade sugar glue.

• I used a silicone rope mold to do the yellow border.
• The cow print was cut out randomly with a pastry wheel aAdd Mediand glued on with sugar glue.  Easy peasy!
• Last thing… you can see yet another of my cowboy cakes here, along with a tutorial for How I Stack Tiered Cakes!

That’s it ya’ll!!    Minimal rambling – maximum cake details!!

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend… if all goes well, when you’re reading this I’ll be away for a long weekend with my husband at a bed &  breakfast celebrating our 18th anniversary!

As always, if you have any questions, leave me a comment!!  I’ll be happy to help out if I can!