Floral Cake Design: Paint with Cocoa Butter
Mixing the Cocoa Butter Paint
A course by Emily Hankins , Wedding Cake Designer
About the video: Mixing the Cocoa Butter Paint
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how to mix your cocoa butter paint using cocoa butter and edible dust colours and a few simple pieces of equipment.”
In this video lesson Emily Hankins addresses the topic: Mixing the Cocoa Butter Paint, 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
“Mixing the Cocoa Butter Paint In this lesson, I'll show you how to mix your cocoa butter paint to get the correct consistency for painting with. I've got the materials laid out here for mixing our paint. We'll start with the white paint because that's how I start when I mix anything. We always start with a white, mix it to the correct consistency, and then we add colours to that. I've got my cocoa butter Callets here. I've got my white dust. This is the Fractal Colors whitener. But if you can't get hold of this one, any white dust colour will do. I love this one because it's got a strong am...”
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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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