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11 HD Video Lessons
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Instructor
Elisa Strauss
Confetti Cakes owner and founder Elisa Strauss is a former Ralph Lauren designer turned award-winning cake artist whose cakes have appeared on "The View," the Food Network's "Extreme Cake Challenge" and "Sex and the City." In 2008 she was selected as one of America's top 10 pastry chefs in Pastry Art and Design magazine. View profile »
Designer Handbag Cakes
with Elisa Strauss
Have your handbag and eat it too! Let celebrity cake designer Elisa Strauss teach you to sculpt and decorate an unbelievably realistic couture handbag from cake.
Get a handle on designing handbag cakes, including custom color and texture choices. Fashion the handbag with divots and pleats to form an authentic sense of movement, and create genuine looking zippers, rivets and buckles from sugar paste.
Make a handbag so cute you could just eat it up. Sign up now for Designer Handbag Cakes.
What You'll Learn
- To create a to-scale custom template for your handbag cake
- To fashion zippers, rivets, rings, buckles, and grommets out of gum paste for a hyper-realistic look
- New techniques for doweling your cake and applying textured fondant
- To develop dynamic sculpting methods for creating movement in your cake design
- To explore exotic fondant patterns and textures like ostrich, alligator, and giraffe
What You'll Make
- A handbag cake so authentic it could be confused for a real couture handbag
What You'll Need:
- Cake
- Gum paste
- Fondant
- Texture impression mat
- Luster dust
- Petal dust
- Gel coloring
- Inspiration for a cake template
Lesson Plan
| 1 | Introduction | 2:24 |
| 2 | Cake Template | 7:39 |
| 3 | Color & Texture | 20:43 |
| 4 | Sugar Decorations | 1:01:26 |
| 5 | Building the Cake | 22:57 |
| 6 | Sculpting & Spackling | 33:50 |
| 7 | Piecing the Fondant | 25:53 |
| 8 | Adding the Soft Details | 34:43 |
| 9 | Putting It All Together | 1:00:00 |
| 10 | Bonus - Fondant Faux Wood | 9:47 |
| 11 | Bonus - Distressed Leather | 4:22 |
Skills you should have:
- Roll out gum paste to specified thickness
- Knead gum paste to a workable texture
- Store gum paste while working with it
- Color gum paste
- Imagination for designing new projects!
- Use a piping bag and piping tips
- Use a patchwork cutter
- Store fondant while working
- Apply a crumb coat
- Carve cake
- Roll out fondant
- Reinforce cake tiers for stacking
- Knead fondant to a workable texture
- Center upper cake tiers before placing on lower tiers
Recent 5 star reviews of this class
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TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!
Just took this class last week and it was unbelievable. I learned so much and my final project came out great. Elisa should teach all the classes in cake decorating on Craftsy. She is so informative and doesn't miss a beat in her tutorial. What a great learning experience. Thanks Elisa...
AMAZING CLASS!!!!
This is probably my FAVORITE class on Craftsy! Elisa is a wonderful teacher who teaches you a TON of techniques and encourages you to try new methods that will produce AMAZING results. Her instructions are so clear, the materials are great and she is so generous with the tips and tricks she shares. Don't miss this class!!!!!
Amazing
I was a little worried to try this cake, but with the help in this class was a breeze.. it looks more intimidating that it is, but I guess that the detailed instructions its what made so easy to make. I finished mine and wasn't hard at all and I got lots of compliments. All craftsy classes are amazing and so worth they money.
Amazing Class
I loved this class. Even if you never make a handbag cake(though it does make you want to start one right away) , you will come away with a lot of great tips and tricks. Elisa makes a daunting task look like something even I can tackle. Although it seems time consuming the results are worth it. She is an awesome teacher and takes you through a detailed step by step. Thanks for the bonus lessons at the end too!
Excellent course
I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in handbag cakes. ELISA is very thorough and gives a lot of detail. She talks you through every step in a lot of detail and everything is explained very clearly. I thoroughly enjoyed the class and felt it was worth every penny.
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