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asked April 16th 2015

Covering a t shirt cake

Good morning

I’m in desperate need of some help again! I’m helping a young friend make a West Ham football top cake like the one in this link

http://cakesdecor.com/cakes/160552-west-ham-shirt-football-cake

Cakes are baked and we will be cutting and filling etc tomorrow and covering in fondant on Saturday

The body is a 9 x 13 cake and the arms are made from another cake to be attached.

My question is how is the best way to cover it? As you can see the arms are different colours.

Do I cover the body and the arms seperate you and then join together or join it all at crumb coating stage and cover it all in red and then put blue over the top?

Or is there a better way?

Thank you so much!

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Good morning

I’m in desperate need of some help again! I’m helping a young friend make a West Ham football top cake like the one in this link

http://cakesdecor.com/cakes/160552-west-ham-shirt-football-cake

Cakes are baked and we will be cutting and filling etc tomorrow and covering in fondant on Saturday

The body is a 9 x 13 cake and the arms are made from another cake to be attached.

My question is how is the best way to cover it? As you can see the arms are different colours.

Do I cover the body and the arms seperate you and then join together or join it all at crumb coating stage and cover it all in red and then put blue over the top?

Or is there a better way?

Thank you so much!

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Hi Tania

Couple of ways of doing it. You could cover the sleeves first and bring the icing slightly over to the main body. Cover the main body and cut down so you’re cutting through both colours. Lift the red off where the two colours meet and remove the excess underneath then butt the two colours together to give you a seemless join.
This double barrel cake tutorial shows what I mean:

Tutorial: How to make a double barrel cake


Follow the photos which shows the unravelling of the sugarpaste.
Or google ‘camiseta del Atletico de Madrid en tarta’. You’ll see a youtube video which shows how to do sleeves on a football shirt.
Hope they help. x

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Thank you madeitwithlove – so you think we should put the sleeves and body together before we cover in sugarpaste? I was thinking about covering the body then covering the sleeves and then sticking the sleeves on to the body with royal icing! (The body and sleeves are 2 seperate cakes) not sure if this would work or look come to that? X

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I would crumbcoat the sleeves and body together to make one cake … yes. For me that would be the easiest way of icing to keep the shirt looking as one whole. Icing them separately might leave a gap where the sleeves meet the body. Did you take a look at the guide I suggested?

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I did look at the link you sent – thank you – but it didn’t seem to show what I needed with the overlapping if the two colours and then cutting through so we have a seamless join – was a little confused lol.

The t shirt cake tutorials that I have looked at don’t show any with different colour sleeves.

Thank you again x

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