{"id":382,"date":"2010-04-24T22:25:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2010-04-24T22:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:25:46","slug":"straw-hat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Straw hat cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had stated months ago that for her birthday next summer she wanted a garden party that looked like a french film with a long table\u00a0 under a tree,\u00a0 set with lace\u00a0 table cloths, flowers, nice china, spectacular food and she wanted her guests to wear\u00a0 big floppy hats&#8230; So when she invited me to dinner this weekend I decided to let her know that we have not forgotten her fantasy&#8230; and I made a cake that (tried to) look like a floppy straw hat.<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0 make the shape , I baked one large round cake and one small bowl shaped one. I chose a carrot cake because mine holds its shape well, and\u00a0 tastes great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake2.jpg\" title=\"cake2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake2.jpg\" alt=\"cake2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it cooled, I made the marzipan flowers to decorate it. They are much easier to make than appears. After shaping a small cone, you shape the petals one by one by pressing small balls or marzipan\u00a0 into your hand until they have a somewhat circular shape and you stick them onto the cone one by one, going around the cone a few times. You can turn them back a little to give them a more open look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake3.jpg\" title=\"cake3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake3.jpg\" alt=\"cake3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake4.jpg\" title=\"cake4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake4.jpg\" alt=\"cake4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make the brim of the hat undulate a bit, I carved out a piece in a wave fashion&#8230;.it was semi successful&#8230;\u00a0 Finally to imitate the look of straw, I added orange and lemon zest to the icing, which also gave it a nice fresh flavour. Finally to do the ribbon\u00a0 and bow I rolled out some more marzipan, cut it in a ribbon\u00a0 and fashioned a bow with the remnants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake1.jpg\" title=\"cake1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cake1.jpg\" alt=\"cake1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had stated months ago that for her birthday next summer she wanted a garden party that looked like a french film with a long table\u00a0 under a tree,\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}