Very original and elegantly look cakes from ... towels. Decorated with ribbons, accessories and figurines, they can be confused with the masterpieces of culinary art. This cake tarthochetsya immediately cut into pieces and try. A two-tiered cake can be served on your birthday. A wedding cake of towels in three tiers will cause more interest than a gifted refrigerator or vacuum cleaner. There is a personal experience of the construction of such a "cake" and pleasant memories of the gaping mouthmouths and guests. Do not swing at once on the wedding cake, apoprojem to build a two-tier masterpiece for the original gift.
Color and texture selection
The first thing to do is pick up a set of towels. Color gamma depends on the occasion: we give a man or woman, on the day of birth or take into account the taking of the Bastille. It is desirable to have the inclinations of artistic taste, and to choose colors that blend with each other.
White and black are harmoniously combined with other colors. A combination of blue (blue) and yellow will be a win-win. Red is combined with brown, pink, blue, yellow. Orange color requires careful use, it can be combined with light green or dark green.
The variations of pastel tones are idyllic: an unsaturated brown with beige, cream, pink. The green color is in harmony with yellow, white, light green, and gray. Light violet shades can be combined with white, yellow, gray colors. But these are only the proposed variations. Perhaps in you will win the spirit of rebellion and violation of the authoritativeness.
The cake can be combined from mono-colors, and can be supplemented with a towel with a bright pattern. Both the first and second options are good in their own way. For children svargante "cake" brighter. And for a wedding, or a venerable anniversary, it is better to pick up towels of pastel tones. Revitalize the composition can be more vivid, tapes, appropriate accessories accessories.
Billing is also important. Towels made of a more dense fabric can be so "make up" that they can only be distinguished from the real edible cake only close to them. Especially if you look for silk towels. Terry towels are hardly simulated, but they look more elegant. By rich look cakes from velor towels: thanks to embossing and a kind of a blaze. Waffle towels are widely used.
The process itself
For a two-tiered cake, we need 3-4 towels. The 1st towel is the base for the lower tier. To make the cake wide, the main towel should be large. The 2nd towel acts as an ornament (addition) to the lower tier. 1-2 towels for the upper tier.
Usually, when constructing such cakes, people do not "soar" -wrap a large towel into a large squiggle, the smaller - in a smaller one, put them on each other. This approach has the right to exist. However, strongly protruding seams are formed, especially on the lower tier, which are desirable to be decorated with a wide ribbon.
I advise you to act thinner and trickier:
1. Take a large towel, straighten on a flat surface, the entire length - face down . Fold it along , in a few radishes - curl, what is the height of the lower tier you want to get. For example, the desired height is 20cm.
2. Take a smaller towel and put it on top of a large - directly to the middle - with a drawing (face up ). Part of a small towel should be inside a large, and part of the protruding. The inner edge may need to be penciled. The bottom line is: the smaller towel will be on top as the main picture. If we want to completely hide the large towel in small, in our case, make a protrusion of centimeters 20. If we want to form several layers of the lower "cake", make a ledge less - 15 centimeters. In the first case, there are no requirements for a large towel, it is useful for forming a volume. In the second case, it will act as a background. Therefore, it is advisable to choose a one-colored, preferably darker, than a small towel. We will have several layers of cake.
3. Now carefully, pulling the edges, twist the big towel at the same time with the smaller one. The front side of the big one should be on the outside, and the smaller side on the inside.
4. Turn the protruding (above the large towel) of the smallest towel to the outside. Straighten it. All! The bottom cake is made. We killed three rabbits: they made the lower tier more elegant, concealed a massive side seam and the upper folds of a large towel.
5. We proceed to the formation of the upper "cake". The second level should be smaller in diameter, but not too small. The upper "cake" can easily be twisted by the height of centimeters 15. Since the upper towel is small, the lateral seam will not be very noticeable. And you can tinker as a lower tier, by arranging two small towels. If the towels are thin, as a frame I recommend using a clean cardboard wrapped in a tube and wrap it around towels.
6. Between each other, two halves of the cake, as well as rusty places, can be fixed with decorative pins. Or sew it in threads with one thread. The future owner is advised to warn about it, so as not to prick the finger and do not puff, trying to disassemble the gift.
7. The cake can be decorated with ribbons, ribbons, flowers, figurines, rings, beads, which will be enough for imagination. But the side decor should not drown out the texture of the "cake". It's enough to surround the upper edges of the cakes with a braid, or to mask the side seams. Pay more attention to the decoration of the top of the cake.
8. You can pack the cake in a large box decorated with cards. And you can put it on a round cardboard base and wrap it with a translucent gift wrap.
Successful experiments! By the way, you can make a cake not only from towels ...