Floral Cake Design: Paint with Cocoa Butter
Transferring the Design onto the Cake 1
A course by Emily Hankins , Wedding Cake Designer
About the video: Transferring the Design onto the Cake 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to create a template from your initial sketch on the computer using Inkscape software. ”
In this video lesson Emily Hankins addresses the topic: Transferring the Design onto the Cake 1, 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
“In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create a template from your initial sketch. I'm going to show you how to resize it on the computer and how to transfer that sketch onto your cake so that you've got a design to work from. So in a previous lesson, we drew out our design sketch. And I'm going to show you in this lesson how to Create a template from that scratch. Working straight onto a cake free hand is a little bit daunting. So, I'm going to show you how to use a template to make your life a little bit easier. So I'm going to use a little piece of software called Inkscape. Now Ink...”
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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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