This is a Louboutins shoebox birthday cake featuring a gumpaste high heel shoe that is SUPPOSED to be Louboutin shoe! LOL! I really tried! LOL! I have since learned that the Louboutin trademark is the red sole of the shoe so this gumpaste shoe was obviously not an exact replica. Se la vie! The cake is a yellow vanilla butter cake with a vanilla/almond buttercream icing and is sure to be delicious! The lid of the box was 2 pieces of foamcore I glued together, cut with my scroll saw, and then covered with fondant and airbrushed. The entire cake was airbrushed a beige color blending some Americolor airbrush colors. The board was also covered in fondant and airbrushed. The tissue paper emerging from the box is all pre-colored (by me) gumpaste. Hope you all like my first attempt at a shoebox cake and high heel shoe! 
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Wow! Once again a stellar creation! very nice Laura…and thanks for the tips, my first cake will be uploaded soon.
Thanks SO much! I’m so happy you liked this! Can’t wait to see your cake!
I’m trying to get caught up on videos and I see this one… Oh yeah! Awesome!!! I was so excited to see this girl! I am trying to make a shoe and the heel is difficult! I am begging for a tutorial:) Please:) Pretty please:oD A tut for the whole shoe? I haven’t found a good one for the box either. I need a lot of details:)
Thank you for the tutorials you are about to make:D Luvya!
BOP
Wow absolutely fantastic work! What did you do with the other cheapo shoe?
Thanks BOP! I’m so glad you liked it! Tutorials for sure in the future. We’ll see if I’m able to make it again! LOL!
Thank you! Haha! I still have both shoes and I guess I’ll hold onto them in case someone else ever wants a shoe made!
Well it turned out amazing! Can you tell me where you got the shoes and what brand they are in case I decide to try this myself? And did you use a smaller size?
Thanks a lot! The shoes were bought at some cheapo store. LOL! Almost like a swap meet or something! I paid $7 for the shoes. Can you believe it? You can literally use ANY high heel. The brand of these were Xotchil.
Hi Laura:
I just have one question: Why did you choose to make the tissue paper out of gumpaste rather than fondant?
Thanks!
Hi! At first I had planned to make the tissue paper a lot wavier by supporting it with scrunched up paper towels and such. But once I started adding the gumpaste I realized that if the tissue paper stuck up too much, it really wouldn’t look like tissue paper, rather more like a basket! LOL! So I decided to abort my plan. I had already colored the gumpaste and didn’t want it to go to waste. I did make sure to tell the client not to eat it. Just to peel it off along with the box lid.
How in the world did you cut out that label??? It is so detailed. I have trouble cutting out easy letter to look nice. You just used an exacto??? It looks like it was done on a cutter (cricket) Nice job. Any help with the letters would be awsome. If you could email me that would be great. I love how you do our videos in an all black backround. Do you go back and edit a black backround? Thanks so much.
Oh, Didi u make a template for the top of the shoe?
Yes, believe it or not, just an Xacto knife! LOL! I just googled the Loubouton logo and saved the pic on a memory stick and went to my local cake supply where they printed it out on edible paper for me. Glad you liked it! It WAS a pain in the butt! LOL! For the black background I just hang some black material on a carboard project board. Sorry, no template… Just made it by pure guessing.
omg this cake is awesome! i want a Louboutin cake! u are so talented! The logo is flawless GREAT job!
Wow! Thank you so much!
very cute!!! but btw..pinkboxcake heel tutorial has a part 2
Thank you! Haha! Yes, pinkboxcake put up their part 2 the day after I finished my cake.LOL! It wouldn’t have been much help any way since the heel they made is a strappy heel. I”m just happy I was able to figure it out.
@laurapoopie hahaha ya
urz lookzz amazing too 
how did you figure out to make the top part of the shoe?
Just thought about how the piece would look flat. Drew it out on paper so I at least had an idea what it SHOULD look like… LOL! Then I just tried over and over and over again until it came out.
It was a HUGE challenge but it felt so good when I figured it ou! 
ok, so I guess you just used plastic wrap to hold it up untill it dried?
Kleenex. LOL!
How much did it cost?
Hmmmm…. LOL! OMG, I can’t remember! LOL! At least a couple hundred.
Can’t remember how many servings this cake was…
It’s brilliant !
Thank you! :0)