Coloured Mirror Glaze Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

In this lesson Helen, Great British Bake Off, Creme de la Creme winner, puts the coloured glaze mix together. She shares plenty of hints and tips along the way and explains the whole process.

Paul takes over to ganache the cake. For the more experienced you might want to skip forward.

After getting a row from Helen for using cheap chocolate, Paul is very surprised when his chocolate sets so well. He then applies the second coat then refrigerated.

Paul now neatens off the ganche layers smoothing to get a nice clean finish.

Using cocoa butter Helen shows this amazing airbrushing technique to achieve the lovely velvet finish. Cocoa butter seals the cake and saves having to cover in sugarpaste!

This is where the magic happens….watch as Helen pours the glaze over the cake giving the amazing glossy, shiny finish.  

Adding some simple summer fruits really brings the cake to life giving it an extra WOW factor. The placing of the fruits is down to you, but watch as Helen carefully places the fruits to give the contrasts to end of with this amazing design.

Repeating the process on Lesson 6, but this time adding a summer yellow effect which gives the cake a completely different look using the same design.

You can choose from a range of decorations, but watch as Helen adds the pearls and chocolate discs to decorate to give a beautiful overall finished.   

Helen suggests transfer sheet and disc decorations which is covered in Lesson 5 of her Creme de la Creme class.  

Paul and Helen share some other ideas you can use from what you have learned in the mirror glaze tutorial.

Paul and Helen share everything a  professional cake decorator needs to know about this type of design.