Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art

Placing the Sugar Elements

A course by Cynthia Irani , Cake Artist

Cake Artist. Montreal, Canada.
Joined January 2021
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4,303 students
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About the video: Placing the Sugar Elements

Overview

“In this lesson, I will talk about where to place your sugar elements and find balance in your composition. ”

In this video lesson Cynthia Irani addresses the topic: Placing the Sugar Elements, 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

“In this lesson, I'm going to assemble all of my sugar elements onto the cake to create my final composition. So to do so, I'm going to take my main statement flower. and make sure before I place it on the cake I find like the face of the cake. Which side do you like best? Kind of, Look at it, rotate it, maybe before you actually place your second tier. On top. Make sure you know which one you like best. and then place it on top. Once you do so, the way this is placed here, you will have to define where your statement flower is going to go. This is where you kind of visually test this withou...”

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Course summary for: Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (95)
  • 4303 students
  • 4 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 21m)
  • 2 downloads
  • Category

    Craft, Culinary, Design
  • Areas

    Cake Decorating, Cake Design, Edible Art, Fondant

Cynthia Irani

Cynthia Irani
A course by Cynthia Irani

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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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Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art. Craft, Design, and Culinary course by Cynthia Irani

Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art

A course by Cynthia Irani
Cake Artist. Montreal, Canada.
Joined January 2021
  • 99% positive reviews (95)
  • 4,303 students