Floral Cake Design: Paint with Cocoa Butter
Painting the Largest Flower: The Hibiscus 1
A course by Emily Hankins , Wedding Cake Designer
About the video: Painting the Largest Flower: The Hibiscus 1
Overview
“Now I will show you how to paint large hibiscus flowers in easy-to-follow steps. I will be looking at applying the paint correctly and layering the paint to create depth and shading.”
In this video lesson Emily Hankins addresses the topic: Painting the Largest Flower: The Hibiscus 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
“Painting the Largest Flower: The Hibiscus In this lesson, I'll show you how to start painting with our largest flower, the hibiscus. I'll show you how to layer your paint, how to mix your colours to create lovely depth and shading in your flowers to really make them pop. We already have our white paint mixed. We need to start adding colour now. Our hibiscus flowers are a really lovely deep pink colour, so I'll start with a pink dust. This is the Squire's Kitchen Rose dust. But again, any dust of this sort of shade, any edible dust of this sort of shade will do. But I'm specifically using th...”
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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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