Join internationally-renowned instructor Alan Tetreault to create impressive stenciled patterns on fondant- or buttercream-covered cakes, cookies, and cupcakes. Through four cake projects, you’ll learn how to stencil a cake with vivid designs and enhance them with a variety of beautiful embellishment techniques. Add depth and alluring accents to your patterns with accessible hand-painting techniques. Over-pipe your stenciled designs for greater dimension. Bring fashion-forward flair to your cakes with new lace techniques in Sugar Dress. Personalize your creations with monograms and bring it all together with sugar flower and paisley focal points. Alan also will teach you amazing techniques for using stencils, Sugar Dress, and hand painting on cookies and cupcakes.
Class Sessions
Introduction
3:39
Meet your instructor, cake artist Alan Tetreault, as he previews the six projects you'll explore in this class.
Over-Piped Princess Cake
33:43
Get started stenciling as Alan imparts his techniques for creating hands-free stencils, perfect-consistency icing and evenly applied designs that wrap around the entire cake. Embellish your designs with over-piping and luster dust.
Camilla Rose Cake
22:17
Learn the art of underpainting to add dimension and depth as you dust the fondant before you stencil onto a square cake. Add a monogram and mask off parts of the stencil you wish to omit from your design.
Paisley Celebration Cake
34:39
Add drama to your designs as Alan demonstrates how to paint stenciled designs with luster dust, stencil onto a cake board and create a free-standing decoration that echoes the main motif.
Sugar Dress Lace Cake
35:12
Discover Sugar Dress, which makes pliable, strong lace that can be made months ahead of time to add a modern twist on delicate lacework. Alan offers detailed instruction on how to make it as well as creative ideas for incorporating it in your designs.
Stenciling on Buttercream
14:56
Not a fan of fondant? No worries! Alan shows you how to stencil on crusting buttercream and even includes the recipe.
Cupcakes & Cookies
34:26
Scale down your designs as Alan shows you how to use all of the techniques to make stunning and coordinating cupcakes and cookies.
Your Instructor
Alan Tetreault
Alan Tetreault was 14 years old when he completed the Wilton Cake Decorating Master Course. Today, he's been teaching cake decorating for over 40 years. As an honors graduate of the prestigious Culinary Institute and the owner and founder of Global Sugar Art, Alan travels the world judging at international and national cake competitions. He's also a member of ICES and the British Sugarcraft Guild. In 2010, Alan was invited to be the international guest artist at the Cake International Show in Birmingham, England, where he demonstrated and taught his unique techniques to more than 15,000 visitors.
Bonus Material
Perfect Stenciling
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