Floral Cake Design: Paint with Cocoa Butter
Influences
A course by Emily Hankins , Wedding Cake Designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I will talk to you about the things that influence my work, from my childhood to people I regularly follow on the internet!”
In this video lesson Emily Hankins addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Floral Cake Design: Paint with Cocoa Butter. Learn how to paint striking tropical flowers onto sugarpaste using colored cocoa butter to create spectacular cake designs.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'm going to talk to you about my influences and all the different things that influenced my work over the years. Not all of my influences come from the cake world. I take my influence for my work from all sorts of different places. But when I was first starting out, the first cake book I ever bought was by a lovely lady called Zoe Clark, and she lives in Australia now, but she used to be based in the UK, and I bought this book because I wasn't really sure about making cakes. I'd seen lots of family and friends' cakes and homemade cakes, but I knew that I wanted t...”
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Course summary for: Floral Cake Design: Paint with Cocoa Butter
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Category
Craft, Culinary -
Areas
Cake Decorating, Cake Design, DIY, Edible Art, Floral & Plant Design, Fondant, Icing, Painting
Emily Hankins
A course by Emily Hankins
Emily Hankins is a UK-based cake designer specialized in edible, hand-painted decorations. Originally a graphic designer, she was passionate about illustration and design but eager to express her creativity with a more hands-on craft. That’s when she fell in love with cake design, initially baking for friends and family until she started her own business in 2012.
Besides creating custom pieces for her clients, Emily teaches cake-painting classes nationally and internationally at institutions like Cakeology in India and Cake International in the UK. She was named one of UK’s top 10 cake artists by Cake Masters Magazine, and she regularly writes for Cakes & Sugarcraft Magazine and American Cake Decorating Magazine. She is also one of the co-authors of Designer Cake Decorating, a collection of contemporary techniques.
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