Designer Handbag Cakes

Description Get a handle on designing handbag cakes, including custom color and texture choices. Sculpt your cake into a fashionable handbag with divots and pleats to form an authentic sense of movement; and create genuine-looking zippers, rivets and buckles from gum paste. Learn new techniques for doweling your cake and applying textured fondant. Develop dynamic sculpting methods; and explore exotic fondant patterns and textures like ostrich, alligator, and giraffe. Make a handbag so cute you could just eat it up.

• Class Preview
• Introduction
• Cake Template
• Color & Texture
• Sugar Decorations
• Building the Cake
• Sculpting & Spackling
• Piecing the Fondant
• Adding the Soft Details
• Putting It All Together
• Bonus - Fondant Faux Wood
• Bonus - Distressed Leather