Book Shaped Cake

A book shaped cake is a fun way to decorate for a baptism, birthday cake, graduation or school event. Once you carve out your book cake, decorating it for the special occasion is the best part.

How to make a Book Shaped Cake

I talk about what size of pan I used for this tutorial and
how much cake mix you will need below.

Go ahead and carve away! You want to form your cake into the shape of an open book. If you need to, grab a big dictionary so you can visualize what your goal is.



Now that you have carved the middle work on the slanted sides.



Just remember it doesn't have to be perfect. If you aim for perfection you might just keep carving until there isn't much left of your book cake.



Add a crumb coat to your entire cake and let it air dry several hours or overnight.

Now frost your cake and decorate how you'd like it.



This cake was made with a fondant bookmark and a frozen buttercream transfer.
For the edges I used a knife to line the sides, top and bottom of the cake to resemble more like pages of a book. Then added a shell border around the transfer and the images.



This cake was made for a young women event where the theme was
writing your own personal fairy tale.

More Ideas for Book Cakes

• You can decorate a rectangle cake into a closed book.
  
  Yep, its a cake! Photo courtesy of calistan


• Wilton makes a book cake pan.
  

• You will need 2 cake mixes or double your cake recipe to fill the book cake pan. I used a half sheet cake pan for the tutorial on this page, like this one and doubled my white cake recipe.
  

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