Elisa Strauss

Designer Handbag Cakes

Elisa Strauss
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Meet cake artist Elisa Strauss and learn about the Craftsy platform.
Turn your cake inspiration into a template and learn about time management.
Learn fundamental color theory and how to achieve fashionable textures.
Create details such as buckles, zippers and handles from gum paste.
Build your cake tiers using support boards and dowels.
Start sculpting and spackling your handbag cake.
Apply alligator-textured fondant pieces to your cake.
Add small, soft details like stitching and color dust to your sugar decorations.
Paint small metallic details and finish your handbag cake.
Shape, emboss and paint fondant to look like a wood board.
Achieve a natural-looking distressed leather texture in your fondant.
 
 
11 Lessons
4  hrs 44  mins

Description

Get a handle on designing handbag cakes, including custom color and texture choices. Sculpt your cake into a fashionable handbag with divots and pleats to form an authentic sense of movement; and create genuine-looking zippers, rivets and buckles from gum paste. Learn new techniques for doweling your cake and applying textured fondant. Develop dynamic sculpting methods; and explore exotic fondant patterns and textures like ostrich, alligator, and giraffe. Make a handbag so cute you could just eat it up.

Elisa Strauss

Confetti Cakes owner and founder Elisa Strauss is a former Ralph Lauren designer turned award-winning cake artist. Her cakes have appeared on the Today show, The View, the Food Network's Extreme Cake Challenge and Sex and the City. Elisa's work also has been featured in the pages of InStyle, Marie Claire, Elle, Vogue, Modern Bride and many more. In 2008, she was selected one of the 10 best pastry chefs in America by Pastry Art and Design magazine.

Elisa Strauss

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