Make-Ahead Techniques for Stunning Cakes

Ileana Saldivia

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Chocolate Panel Essentials

23:35

Meet cake designer Ileana Saldivia and start learning how to create her modified rolled modeling chocolate recipe. Get tips on rolling and trimming chocolate panels, and find out the best way to store and preserve them.

Decorating Panels & Paneling

26:34

Add texture, shimmer and marbling to your chocolate modeling panels by using edible lusters, glitter and sugar crystals. Ileana shows you how to efficiently wrap your cake in pre-cut panels for stunning results every time.

Make-Ahead Appliqué

9:42

Discover the secrets of make-ahead appliqués! Ileana demonstrates how to shape, embellish and store these decorations until it's time to attach them to your cake.

Make-Ahead Fondant Frills

19:49

Ileana shares her clever technique for pre-rolling and storing sugar ruffles. You'll see how to revitalize your ruffles in a snap by trimming and thinning them to their final dimensions and shape. Plus, try out a new twist on the layout and application of this elegant frilled look.

Forgiving Florals: The Statement Rose

20:27

Next, it's time to make a beautiful statement rose! Create delicate petals from a simple round cutter and dry them in a variety of shapes for roses big and small, in all stages of bloom.

Coloring Flowers & Easy Foliage

18:38

Finally, add dramatic color and texture to your statement rose to finish off your design. Make quick and easy gold-painted wafer paper leaves and gum paste berries, then wire them together to form organic-looking sprays that easily attach to your cake.

6 Lessons

1 hrs 59 mins

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Work smarter, not harder! Award-winning wedding cake designer Ileana Saldivia shares her insider secrets for creating breathtaking cakes that don’t require hours of last-minute effort.

Ileana Saldivia

Since opening in 2010, Ileana Saldivia's Sugar Realm bakery has become one of Cincinnati's top wedding cake boutiques. Ileana's cakes are renowned for their unique custom flavors and designs, innovative architectural compositions and attention to detail, and are regularly featured in major bridal, lifestyle and cake decorating magazines. In 2014, she won her first culinary competition in the design category. And in 2015, Cincinnati Magazine awarded Sugar Realm "Best of the City, Upscale Wedding Cakes."

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