This stunning Ballet Slipper Cake was done by one of our cake friend Toni, who is an Aussie living in Italy. The beautiful simple whiteness shows off the stunningly coloured ballet slippers.

The cake is a dummy as it is for a Fashion Trade Fair in Florence.

Toni explains how she made this beautiful creation:

I order the dummy’s here from a huge polystyrene factory… I just call up, give measurements for what I need, and I can collect the dummy’s the next day. The tiers are 25cm, 20cm and 10cm.

I first attached the white chocolate fondant to the poly dummy’s using a strong glue. The bottom tier was then glued to the plate. Each tier was then glued to on top of each other.

I pre-prepared balls of each colour I would be using by using paste colours with the white chocolate fondant. I then made 5 pairs of each colour. The weather has been in the mid 30’s and gumpaste is definitely much better for these molds. But because I needed so many shoes, I didn’t have enough gumpaste, which is why I used the fondant.

Due to hot weather, the fondant was very sticky.. so pushing it into mold, was a PITA!!! I almost had to turn the mould inside out to get the fondant into the deep edges. The mold then went into the fridge for about 5 min, this helped stiffen the fondant and allowed them to pop out easily. All the ballet slippers were placed on a baking tray, and dusted with ivory lustre dust, before being stuck to the dummy cakes with a strong glue. This seemed to take forever as I completed one tier at a time.

The final touch was a cream satin ribbon around the top of each tier and the arranged shoes on the top tier. This has been my most commented cake so far!

Here you can see the ballet slipper mould, next to the hand it’s not as big as you’d think, still for 40 pairs of shoes, that’s a lot of work!

Pictures courtesy of Toni