Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream
The Lion
A course by Liz Shim , Cake Artist
About the video: The Lion
Overview
“Now we will move on to learning how to pipe a lion cupcake. ”
In this video lesson Liz Shim addresses the topic: The Lion, 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 we have our sloth in this lesson, I'm gonna teach you how to pipe a lion. So let's go ahead and reference our sketch. So here we have the lion. And the main technique that we're going to be practicing here is Creating rosettes to build this mane. So we're gonna be using tip number 16 for that. And it's an open star tip. It's pretty small, but it'll give us a nice flexibility to pipe big and small rosettes. And then we have tip number four here. That's going to help us create all the other elements like the ears, and the mouth and nose area. And then tip number one, which is already...”
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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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