Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream
Making the Buttercream
A course by Liz Shim , Cake Artist
About the video: Making the Buttercream
Overview
“The buttercream will be our main decorating medium. For this reason, now I will walk you through the entire process of making a silky, stable, and delicious buttercream. ”
In this video lesson Liz Shim addresses the topic: Making the Buttercream, 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
“Now that I've given you tips on how to bake perfect cupcakes, let me show you how to make buttercream. We'll be using buttercream as our main decorating medium for our cupcakes. There's many different types, such as American, Italian, Swiss, and so many more. So go ahead and figure out which one you like best. But here I'm going to show you how to make Swiss meringue buttercream. Now Swiss meringue buttercream is silky, it's smooth, it's easy to work with. and it takes on colors very well, so I personally like it. It also doesn't form a crust like American does, so it'll always stay soft re...”
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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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