Simple Skills for Dramatic Designs

Alexandria Pellegrino

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In-depth Instruction; over 181 mins
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Introduction & Overview

6:25

Meet your instructor, cake artist Alexandria Pellegrino, and discover the amazing techniques you'll learn in this class, from stamping on cakes to hand-painting pastoral scenes and building beautiful, rococo-style frames. Then, Alexandria offers a surprisingly easy technique for cutting the base panels out of gum paste.

Keyhole Cake: The Stamped Panel

29:12

Start on your first cake as you learn how to use a variety of stamps to create a captivating old-world design for your panel's background. Then, learn how to make a custom silicone mold out of any object as you add a dramatic keyhole frame to the middle of your cake.

Keyhole Cake: Frame & Embellishments

40:23

Add a textured base trim using a simple ruler, and a decorative rococo-style frame using a single leaf mold. You won't believe the variations you can get from just one mold! Then, top your cake with two crossed keys and gild all of your embellishments with luscious gold paint.

Forest Cake: The Panel

32:17

Create a beautiful two-tier panel with a tutorial in romantic landscape painting as Alexandria offers tips for portraying perspective and building up highlights and shadows. With Alexandria's guidance, you won't believe the results you'll get, even if you don't consider yourself an artist!

Forest Cake: Frame & Embellishments

22:54

Build an ornate frame using molded gum paste strips as you trace your panel and echo it with an additional frame. Be amazed at the ease with which you can add intricate molded roses and a stately hand-modeled fleur-de-lis topper. Then, create an antiqued silver effect as you hand-paint the frame and embellishments with gold and silver dusts.

Toile Cake: The Panel

24:03

Evoke 18th century grandeur as you re-create the picturesque Toile cake. Using the stencil provided, learn how to build on it with easy freehand details and incorporate washes as you create the panel for this cake. Pick up professional tips for simple stenciling and add a beautiful painted rose garland and gold highlights.

Toile Cake: Frame & Embellishments

25:12

Create an intricate, gilded double frame as you finish this amazing, show-stopping cake. First, outline your toile-inspired panel with an embossed egg-and-dart frame before you add a laurel wreath around it. Finally, build a finial topper for the ultimate in opulence.

7 Lessons

3 hrs 1 mins

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Infuse your decorating with timeless charm and alluring intricacy alongside renowned cake artist Alexandria Pellegrino. Create an exquisite Keyhole cake featuring ornate yet simple stamped designs, glamorous trim, a framed keyhole motif, key-themed toppers and edible 24k gold accents. Make the captivating Forest cake with step-by-step instructions for painting a deceptively easy romantic landscape, creating an exquisite frame and intricate-looking roses, modeling a fleur-de-lis and adding antiqued silver complements. Then, unlock the grandeur of the Toile cake with stenciling, lovely freehand detailing, rich washes, gorgeous gilding, an opulent finial topper and more. Learn to make these lavish looks as achievable as they are desirable!

Alexandria Pellegrino

Alexandria was immersed in art from a young age, and she went on to receive her formal training at Ontario College of Art and Design. After graduating, she studied fine art in Italy, where her eyes were opened to the beauty of food. When she returned to Canada, Alexandria enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu's patisserie program and discovered her greatest passion the world of beautiful cakes. Alexandria founded Cake Opera Co. in 2007. Since then, her work has received praise from across the globe. Alexandria was also the leading judge on Slice Network's Cakewalk, as well as being the winner of two Food Network Challenge gold medals.

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Simple Skills for Dramatic Designs

Alexandria Pellegrino

What is the “Purchase” option all about?

If I’m a paid Premium or Gold Member of Craftsy, do I need to purchase the Class to have access?

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Do I have to be a Member of Craftsy to purchase a Class?

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