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Elegant Techniques for Flawless Cakes

Offered By: Craftsy

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Cooking Courses Cake Decorating Courses

Course Description

Overview

Description Learn techniques for clean, consistent, elegant celebration cakes. Professional cake decorator Helen Mansey starts by revealing the importance of using ganache under fondant for a beautiful finish and sharp edges. And, discover how to expertly troubleshoot broken ganache. Then, learn the key to creating a perfect ganache shell and find out how to apply fondant smoothly to get razor-sharp edges. You won’t believe how professional your cakes will look! Next up, find out how to transfer any design onto your cake using an embosser. And, experiment with pressure piping and over-piping techniques to create custom messages on your cakes for meaningful results. Finally, learn how to create and attach delicate lace pieces to any cake, and make an elegant topper using pastillage.

Syllabus

  • Class Preview
  • Making Perfect Ganache
  • Torting, Filling & Crumb Coating
  • Achieving a Sharp Fondant Edge
  • Embossed Designs
  • Perfect Piping Techniques
  • Lace
  • "Love" Topper

Taught by

Helen Mansey

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