Modeling Chocolate: Create Animal Toppers
Body modeling with chocolate 2
A course by Marc Suárez , Cake Designer
About the video: Body modeling with chocolate 2
Overview
“We continue modeling the body. Now I am going to finish the legs and to continue defining other details of the body.”
In this video lesson Marc Suárez addresses the topic: Body modeling with chocolate 2, 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
“Modeling the Body in Chocolate While the head cools down, I'll start modeling the legs. To do this, I'm going to take a small piece of chocolate. The legs of this animal are very thin, so just a little bit of chocolate. I push the chocolate up and pull it down so that it adapts as much as possible to the frame. This is for animals with very thin legs. For an elephant, I'd make a thicker moldable chocolate tube and adapt it to the structure to make a much wider leg. We pinch the chocolate, stretching it downwards. This way we also thin the legs. Remember also to spray a little water. Be care...”
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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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