Cupcake Decoration: Edible Art with Buttercream
The Giraffe
A course by Liz Shim , Cake Artist
About the video: The Giraffe
Overview
“Finally, let’s take a look at how to pipe a giraffe cupcake.”
In this video lesson Liz Shim addresses the topic: The Giraffe, 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
“In the last lesson, we learned how to pipe a tiger, For the final animal, we'll be creating a giraffe. Let's reference our sketch again. So here's our giraffe. and I'm gonna have these arcs coming towards the nose in the center. And then remember that I. Put these little stars on here just to kind of indicate that I wanted a star texture. to kind of fill this space. So I'm going to teach you how to do that. And then some other elements we'll learn here. is to make pointy ears instead of rounded ears this time and then we'll have these two little horns that are sticking outside of the cupcak...”
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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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