Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream
Preparing the Cupcake Surface
A course by Liz Shim , Cake Artist
About the video: Preparing the Cupcake Surface
Overview
“Before we begin to pipe our animals, let me show you how to prepare a smooth, flat surface on the cupcakes. ”
In this video lesson Liz Shim addresses the topic: Preparing the Cupcake Surface, 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
“Before we begin piping our animals, I'm going to teach you how to prepare the surface of your cupcakes. so you have a nice clean canvas. So one thing you want to do in order to prepare your cupcakes is to make sure that they're flat. Now you can see that most of these baked up relatively fat, but if you have a recipe or you're using Cupcakes that have a high dome, you can always just trim them off. So, This one had a dome earlier, so I just took a serrated knife and a serrated one is one with little teeth and this is probably the best kind of knife to use when cutting breads and cakes becau...”
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Course summary for: Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream
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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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