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Bite Sized
Watch Paul complete the whole project in under 1 minute!
Highlights
In this lesson we pick out the key learning techniques to allow you to watch the main learning points in under 13 minutes!
1. Ingredients for Making Ganche
To start off Paul shows all the ingredients that he’ll be using to make the ganache.
2. Making the Ganache
In this lesson Paul mixes the ingredients together to create the ganache.
3. Preparing the ganache
Paul now starts to prepare the ganache and looks at colouring options.
4. Whitening the cake
Paul now adds the colouring and applies the brilliant white to the ganache.
5. Creating Flowers and Leaves
Paul now starts to create the wafer paper flowers and leaves to decorate the cake.
6. Creating the Mould Decorations
Paul uses Pink Flamingo moulds, but feel free to use whichever brand or design you like, to create decorations for the side of the cake.
7. lesson 7 - Decorating the Cake
This is where the magic starts to happen when Paul brings all the decorations together to come up with this cheaper and faster way to make couture wedding cake.
8. Other Ideas
Paul provides some extra hints and tips on how to use the skills and techniques taught.
9. Pro Lesson
In this lesson, Paul talks all about pricing and selling a cake like this.
No Sugarpaste – Couture Wedding cake tutorial by Paul Bradford
Mindful of the current cost of living crisis, especially the cost of sugar and cake decorating materials, Paul has come up with this sugarpaste free couture wedding cake design. Using textured and coloured ganache, Paul is able to give an excellent finish, while saving costs and time.
Once you have mastered the concept there are a range of designs that would work well using this method.
In this tutorial you will learn how to:
- Create a white tone chocolate ganache
- Apply paint to achieve a crisp white finish
- Condition wafer paper for flower making
- Produce freehand wafer paper flowers
- Wire up a wafer paper flower and display on the cake
