Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art
How to Prepare Your Cake for Fondant With Ganache
A course by Cynthia Irani , Cake Artist
About the video: How to Prepare Your Cake for Fondant With Ganache
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll teach you the best practices for coating your cake. I'll also share with you the recipe for the ganache I use. ”
In this video lesson Cynthia Irani addresses the topic: How to Prepare Your Cake for Fondant With Ganache, which is part of the Domestika online course: Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art. Use cakes as a canvas to capture the beauty of the natural world by creating delicious botanical compositions with sugar.
Partial transcription of the video
“How To Prepare Your Cake for Fondant with Ganache In this lesson, I'll show you how I cover my cakes with ganache. The same technique is used to cover your cakes with Swiss Meringue buttercream or just buttercream. Ganache is basically just chocolate and cream, heavy whipping cream could be used. The combination is just making sure you have the right ratios. It's one to two or one to three or one to four. It really depends on what you want to do with your cakes. If you want to cover your cakes with fondant, you need to make sure that the chocolate ratios are really well-balanced with the cr...”
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Course summary for: Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art
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Category
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Areas
Cake Decorating, Cake Design, Edible Art, Fondant
Cynthia Irani
A course by Cynthia Irani
Cynthia Irani is a contemporary cake designer and artist based in Montreal, Canada. Growing up in a creative household meant she was exposed to a variety of crafts from a young age. She painted murals at school and went on to study graphic design at university, minoring in fine art. Cynthia then worked in the tech industry and product design for 15 years for clients including Yellow Pages Canada, OneOcean Group, and Shopify.
After baking a cake in celebration of the birth of her first child, and sharing it on Instagram, her career in cake decoration began. Since then, Cynthia has become known for her free-flowing petals and the muted, neutral designs which she creates and shares with over 100K followers on Instagram. Her work has also been featured in publications including Cake Masters Magazine and 100 Layer Cakes.
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