Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream
Sketching the Cupcakes
A course by Liz Shim , Cake Artist
About the video: Sketching the Cupcakes
Overview
“In this lesson, I will walk you through the steps for simplifying your ideas and sketching them into cupcake-friendly designs. ”
In this video lesson Liz Shim addresses the topic: Sketching the Cupcakes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream. Discover the endless possibilities of decorating with buttercream and learn how to design, color, and pipe playful animals that look good enough to eat.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Sketching the Cupcakes As you have your design concept, in this lesson, I'll show you how to sketch your cupcake ideas. One thing that is helpful when sketching cupcakes is to draw out the actual shape of the cupcake. Here, I have a template that you can find in the attachments, or you can freehand draw some circles that are about the same size as a standard cupcake. After looking at my mood board, I narrowed down my final selection of animals to five. Here, I'll draw a giraffe, a lion, a tiger, a bear, and a sloth. Here, I have my printouts and a pen. Feel free to use a pencil if you wan...”
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Course summary for: Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream
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Category
Craft, Culinary, Design -
Areas
Baking, Edible Art
Liz Shim
A course by Liz Shim
Liz Shim is a professional cake artist based in Houston, Texas. Her baking journey started in college when she enrolled in a recreational baking class over the summer. By the end of the course, she knew she wanted to pursue baking as a career and went on to attend culinary school in San Francisco. She later landed internships with some of the best cake artists in New York City. After years of working for other bakers, she started her own business Eat Cake Be Merry, making cakes for magazines and weddings.
Since then, Liz has been featured in magazines like, The Knot, and Real Weddings, as well as on TV, and won numerous awards including Bride Magazine’sBest Wedding Cakes in America. Liz was also named one of Martha Stewart Weddings’ Top Pastry Pros in America. She teaches online and in-person classes, hosts a YouTube baking series for Allrecipes, and shares her work with over 370K followers on Instagram.
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