3D Teapot

This cake was created for a friends Books & Brew tea party baby shower. At least a few days to a week before you will make the cake, form the spout, handle, teacup (the bottom of a cupcake pan was the perfect shape for the teacup), and teapot lid out of gumpaste (be sure to insert toothpicks into the spout end and each of the handle ends for easy attachment to the teapot later). Also, make a batch of royal icing and make roses for the teapot decoration.

Bake two square cakes (I used a 10″ and an 8″ square pan) and a 3D ball cake . Cut the square into rectangle shapes to the size “books” you want . Crumb coat the “books” with buttercream icing, this cake was requested to be a lemon cake with raspberry filling so after the crumb coat, I poked holes in the cake, spread raspberry jelly over the top, then covered in more icing , then cover three sides with white fondant , creasing the top, bottom, and sides to resemble “pages”. Next, cover each book with the color fondant you choose for the “jacket”, I used yellow and blue , then stack them . Next, fill the teacup with extra cake cut from the original square cakes, inject some raspberry jelly, crumb coat with a little icing, the top with a circle of chocolate fondant “tea” .

For the teapot, cut the two half spheres so that they fit together to form a perfect ball shape. Use an injector to add raspberry jelly inside the ball cake (note: use jelly, not preserves for the injector, as the seeds in the preserves jam it up),Crumb coat , then cover in white fondant  (note that it no longer has a cake base as shown in the crumb coat picture. I had to remove it because it kept tipping over when covering in fondant, so I just kept it as a sphere). Attach the lid to the top, and the handle and spout to the sides (use a little water or gum paste glue for help with adhesion). Pipe on book titles to each cake and the “teabag” onto the teapot, stack the teacup and teapot on top of the “book” cakes and insert a straw from the teapot spout into the teacup. Use more chocolate fondant and form it around the straw for the appearance of “tea” pouring out of the spout into the teacup . Pipe on green buttercream icing vines and leaves then attach the royal icing roses to the teapot and teacup and brush on some gold edible dust to complete the look .