Floral Cake Design: Paint with Cocoa Butter
Doweling, Boxing, and Delivering the Cake
A course by Emily Hankins , Wedding Cake Designer
About the video: Doweling, Boxing, and Delivering the Cake
Overview
“In this lesson, I will briefly discuss the dos and don'ts of cake deliveries and give you some tips on avoiding disaster.”
In this video lesson Emily Hankins addresses the topic: Doweling, Boxing, and Delivering the Cake, 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
“Doweling, Boxing, and Delivering the Cake In this lesson, I'll talk to you about the perils and pitfalls of creating a real wedding cake and give you some top tips on how to stack and deliver your cakes successfully. Now we've finished painting our beautiful design on our cake, I want to talk to you about some of the practicalities of wedding cake making. Now, the most important part of creating a big, tiered cake like this is support. You can't stack cakes on top of each other like this without some sort of internal support because they will just end up sinking, going wonky, and that will ...”
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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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