Highlights
Highlights from the Pudsey Bear cake course!
1. making buttercream and carving
We begin this cake by first making the delicious mint buttercream, Paul then goes on to show how to carve the cake.
2. covering the cake
Paul rolls out the sugarpaste and covers the cake with Pudsey’s signature yellow colour.
3. covering the board
For this lesson Paul covers the basics on how to cover a square cake board and transfer the cake onto the board.
4. feet and arms
Now that we’ve made the body it’s time to move on to making the feet and arms.
5. making the head
On to Pudsey’s head. Paul shows you how to cover a basic Styrofoam shape with sugarpaste.
6. adding the facial features
Now that the body and head is made, we move on to adding Pudsey’s facial features including the ears, eye patch and a black outline around the body and head.
7. finishing touches
Our Pudsey bear is almost complete, all that is left to do is add the spots on the bandanna and a few other finishing touches!
8. Other ideas
9. Pro lesson
3D Pudsey Bear Cake Tutorial
Learn how to make this 3D Pudsey Bear Cake with the multi-award winning Paul Bradford. Join Paul in making this cake for Children in Need with simple and straightforward steps its perfect for any beginner looking to learn new skills.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to:
- Carve a cake
- Ganache a shaped cake
- Carve polystyrene
- Basic modelling
- And much, much more
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3D Pudsey downloadable tools & ingredients
Other US to metric and Metric to US
Cake
- 2×6” round chocolate cakes 3” deep
Ganache
- 600g Dark chocolate ganache
Sugarpaste
- 3kg of yellow
- 50g green
- 50g blue
- 50g orange
- 50g red
Cake Drums
- 12” square cake drum
- 12” round temporary cake drum
Other
- 7” round by 2” deep Polystyrene
- 500g unsalted butter
- 1kg icing sugar (sugar & crumbs 500g mint chocolate, 500g chocolate milkshake)
Knives
- Serrated knife (large)
- Pallet knife (large)
Modelling Tools
- PME set
Cakey Tools
- Plastic cake smoothers
- Rolling pin
- Small round cutters
Other
- Kenwood Mixer
- Cornflower
- Bench scraper
- Bamboo stick
- Edible glue
- Spray bottle with water
Paul Bradford
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Hi, what sugar paste do you use?
Thank you