Mike McCarey

Advanced Cake Sculpting: Bobbleheads

Mike McCarey

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  • In-depth Instruction; over 292 mins
  • On-demand video access anytime
  • Bonus downloadable PDF resources
  • Access to class Q&A
Meet your instructor, cake artist Mike McCarey, owner of Mike's Amazing Cakes, and learn about this advanced class.
Mike walks you through the process of creating a bobblehead pattern. He'll also explain the importance of keeping references nearby as your sculpt.
Learn to create a stable base and supports for the vertical and horizontal elements of your cake. Mike also discusses food safety and the wobble -- or lack thereof -- in your bobble.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes -- all in cake. Mike walks you through the process of building your bobblehead's structure.
Learn to round off the head, carve the cake body and fix any mistake with Mike's expert advice. You'll finish with a perfect crumb coat.
Master amazing life-like facial details as you sculpt the head, build up the cheeks, brows and mouth and add a nose and eyes.
Mike's hands-on crumb-coating technique comes into use as he rolls out and drapes fondant over the head and face before adding realistic life lines.
The attention to details continues as Mike shows you how to make ears, facial hair, eyebrows and how to use a template to make a head full of fondant hair.
Become an expert body builder as Mike demonstrates how to add legs, shoes, pants and a chef's coat, too.
Give yourself -- or at least your cake -- a hand as you learn to add arms, hands and accessories before pulling out the airbrush to complete the finishing touches.
 
 
10 Lessons
4  hrs 52  mins

With wit and wisdom, Mike will teach you how to sculpt your cake and decorate it with lifelike features made out of fondant and modeling chocolate, using reference photos of your subject. The oversized head offers the advantages of easier carving, lots of cake to serve, and best of all, a light-hearted and humorous way to celebrate your subject. This cake-decorating class also includes some serious cake-stand construction. You’ll learn how to build a sturdy and customized support structure before stacking layers of delicious cake reinforced with buttercream — recipes included!

Mike McCarey

Since 1995, Mike McCarey has focused on pastry at his bakery, Mike's Amazing Cakes, in Redmond, Washington. In between teaching cake architecture and sculpting around the country and appearing on The Food Network as competitor and judge, Mike works magic in cake. His clients have included Starbucks, Dustin Hoffman, Arnold Palmer and even the legendary Julia Child.

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