Modeling Chocolate: Create Animal Toppers
Influences
A course by Marc Suárez , Cake Designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Having references to be inspired by is essential. In this lesson I will talk about some of the influences that are present in my day to day as a cake designer.”
In this video lesson Marc Suárez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modeling Chocolate: Create Animal Toppers . Learn to sculpt, paint, and add texture to any four-legged animal with moldable chocolate .
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'll share my influences with you. The first artist I want to show you is Dorothy Klerck. She is a cake designer from South Africa. As you see in the picture, she specializes in cakes that are extraordinarily large, especially life-sized or even larger. Here she is finishing painting a cake of Nelson Mandela, and this cake is 4.5 m. It is a giant structure. She told me she sometimes needs an architect to finish assembling the structures because they are cakes that weigh tons, and it's crucial to take weight distribution into account so that the frame holds up. I r...”
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Course summary for: Modeling Chocolate: Create Animal Toppers
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Category
Craft, Culinary -
Areas
Cake Decorating, Cake Design, Cake toppers, 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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