The Making of a String Aso- Oke Cake
In this tutorial, I will be giving you a step by step demonstration of how this aso-oke inspired cake was made. During the course of the tutorial, I will be directing you to other tutorials on the website. For more views of this cake, click here.
If you love this tutorial, you might also love the Draped Aso-Oke Cake Tutorial. Link to tutorial here.
THE PROCESS:
(1) First some preliminary work. Make the purse and stiletto. Tutorial for how to make stilettos can be found here. The stiletto and purse were brushed with a 50/50 mixture of vodka and corn syrup to make them glossy.
(2) Make the rose flower. A tutorial for this can be found here.
(3) Make the pearl beads and string them. A tutorial for this can be found here.
(4) Make the feathers. A tutorial for this can be found here.
(5) Make other elements like the fan and brooch. The fondant fan was made the same way you will make paper fan.
(6) For the middle tier:
i. Drape the tier with yellow fondant.
ii. Roll out enough yellow fondant to wrap around the tier.
iii. Roll out aqua fondant and cut it into 1 inch strips. Stick these to the yellow fondant.
iv. Cut out 1/2 cm strips of a darker shade of aqua fondant and stick them vertically on the aqua portion of the fondant leaving 1.5 inch space between each strip.
v. Brush the cake tier with a bit of water and wrap the fondant around it.
vi. Using an extruder, make yellow and aqua fondant strings, cut them into 1.5 inch strings and stick these strings to the cake. I used a total of 180 stings for this 8 inch tier.
(7) For the top and bottom tiers. Make lace pattern on them. A tutorial for how to do this can be found here.
(8) Insert dowels in the bottom and middle tiers and stack the cakes on each other.
(9) Start adding the other design elements on the cake.
(10) Finish the cake by transferring it to a cake board and sticking the shoe and purse to the board. Happy caking!
Terry Adido is passionate about showing people how easy it is to recreate restaurant quality meals in the comfort of their kitchens. With a style of cooking he refers to as Afro-European Fusion, his meals are influenced greatly by French and Italian Cuisine with a West African twist. If you love good food, you are in for the ride of your life.
Thanks Coach Terry, looking forward to trying this.
You are welcome Oladoyin.
This is beautiful Sir Terry. Please I’d like to make request, I hope you’ll oblige. You always use marshmallow fondant and it looks lovely but it’s not easily accessible for those of us in Nigeria. The ones at the big supermarkets is too expensive. Please Sir, kindly give us a fondant recipe that will be equally pliable, tasty, and the ingredients can be easily sourced for here in Nigeria. Thanks a lot Sir.
Hi, if ever I have the need to use/make regular fondant, I will definitely share a recipe.
Lovely. Thank you so much
You are welcome Nike.
Awesome!thanks for sharing
You are welcome Suzan.
Hello Terry, nice work here, pls do you have a tutorial on folded wrapper cake? Like the lace fabric that’s folded? Pls kindly share if you have. I will look for what one and in box you for a clearer pic of what I mean, thanks
Hi. No I dont.
God bless you happy birthday in arrears
Thanks.
Hello Terry kindly help with how you achieved the platform shape front of the shoe. And how you made the purse too. Thanks
Hi. I have no tutorial for the purse. For the shoe, I used the same mtd I use for all my shoes. For the platform, I placed several layers of fondant in the front and covered the side with fondant to conceal the layers.
Thank you so much that is really helpful.
You are welcome.
Hello the fondant (sugar paste )we use here in UK can’t make the shoes,it won’t stand.do I need to add something like tylose powder to it or can I use flower paste / gum paste. Looking forward to ur reply thanks
Hi. I have never used real fondant before, but yes, adding tylose powder to fondant stiffens it.
Ok i will give it a try Thanks.
Hi Terry, thank you very much for this tutorial on Aso Oke. I was able to put to use what I learned and made Aso Oke cake today. God bless you.
Thanks Kehinde.