Captain Bradley Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Paul gets straight to it and after showing and explaining his design goes onto to create the armature using florist wire.

Here Paul uses sugarpaste to make the first leg wrapping it around the wire and shaping it with his hands.

In this lesson Paul adds the torso and begins to add some lovely pirate clothes.

Paul now adds frills of sugarpaste to the bottom of the torso and a couple of other iconic pirate features.

Here Paul adds a true and very stylish pirate jackets complete with fancy lapels and gold trims.

Paul now adds the arms along with some other features to bring a little bring to the pirate’s outfit.

Paul could have taken the easy road and made a couple of hooks but decides he deserves hands.

Due to stability issues Paul decides to use a styrofoam ball as opposed to a ball of sugarpaste to create the head. See the clever way he creates his facial features in the lesson.

Paul now makes one eye with the other one to be covered with an eye patch.

It’s time to give our pirate some hair and a stylish eye patch. Paul uses a great technique for the hair which gives the illusion of fine hair with one piece of sugarpaste.

Paul now brings Captain Bradley to life with some dust work around his face and clothes.

A little bit of glaze and some final little tweaks and now his head is ready to go on.

Paul shares some inspirational ideas you can give a bash during this project. We’re sure you’ve some of your own and we’d love to see what you come up with.

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In this lesson, Paul shares some insider information about the cost to make this cake, as well as pricing, portions and other vital information for any professional cake designer.