Edible Sculptures Design
Make the Fins
A course by Marc Suárez , Cake Designer
About the video: Make the Fins
Overview
“Wafer paper is an edible material that is often used to make accents on cakes. In this lesson you will discover how it works and when it can be used.”
In this video lesson Marc Suárez addresses the topic: Make the Fins, 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
“Making the fins In this lesson I will explain how to make the fins of the fish. When I was thinking about how to make these fins fairly quickly and without a framework, as I mentioned in the previous lessons in the sketch section, I thought I could make them with wafer, not only because of the structure or the speed, but also because of its resemblance to reality. That is, wafer is a very thin paper and the fins of the fish usually have that translucent, delicate and thin appearance, so I sort of connected these ideas and I made the fins with this material. I will introduce the characterist...”
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Course summary for: Edible Sculptures Design
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Craft, Culinary -
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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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