Edible Sculptures Design
Painting 1
A course by Marc Suárez , Cake Designer
About the video: Painting 1
Overview
“Coloring the cake is the crucial step in bringing your sculpture to life. In this lesson I will teach you to paint using only edible colorants on fondant and chocolate.”
In this video lesson Marc Suárez addresses the topic: Painting 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Edible Sculptures Design. Learn to shape and sculpt cakes to recreate hyperrealistic elements and textures .
Partial transcription of the video
“Painting In this lesson I will explain how to paint with edible colorants. First of all, I want to tell you the qualities of a good food coloring. I have this brand, Rainbow Dust. They are gel dyes. In creative pastry we have liquid dyes, gel dyes and paste dyes. I will use gel. The difference between them: liquid dyes are water-based, they are very fluid. Gel ones have a much denser texture. And paste dyes, as the name suggests, are a paste. To dilute we use gel and paste, although gel is more easily diluted because the base is glucose. Liquid colorants do not usually dye very much. I reco...”
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Course summary for: Edible Sculptures Design
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Craft, Culinary -
Areas
Baking, Cake Decorating, Cake Design, DIY, Edible Art, Fondant

Marc Suárez
A course by Marc Suárez
Marc Suárez is a cake designer and expert in hyperrealistic sculptures using modeling chocolate. He's taught creative baking and cake decoration classes all across the world, from New Zealand to Canada, stopping by in Australia, Singapore, India, Kuwait, Greece, the United States, and Costa Rica.
He received the Sculpted Cake Award at the 2019 Cake Master Awards, also known as the Cake Oscars due to its international prestige. Throughout his career he's also been awarded first prize at the 2015 BCN&Cake (Spain), first prize at the 2016 Marseille ExpoGato (France), gold medal at both the 2016 and 2019 Cake International (UK), and second prize at the 2018 SoFlo Cake&Candy Expo (USA).
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