Dreamboats and Petticoats Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

In this lesson, we learn how to put the board together for our cake.

Here we see the legs being made and then the first leg then attached to the rod.

This is where we learn Danielle’s gravity defying trick and it’s a lot simpler than you might think!

We see a lot of cake potentially go to waste here but you could always make some yummy cake pops or save the scraps for another project. A long serrated knife would be good to use at this stage.

Danielle now covers the cake in a nice thick layer of dark chocolate ganache and shows us a clever way to start the shape of the dress.

Danielle now shows us how to cover the cake.

Danielle has made a lovely sugarpaste tone using food colouring gels that are noted in the ingredients list. To save changing the colour with icing sugar with rolling out, she decides to roll on a cake board using vegetable fat to prevent it from sticking.

In this lesson we learn how to create the arms and hands. It’s important to make sure you use the same amount of sugarpaste for each arm noting the length and thickness of the first one.

Danielle makes the torso from one piece of sugarpaste and uses her hands as well as a veiner and ball tool to bring out all the shapes.

Here we see the dress being finished with the top half added to the torso.

Danielle first of all makes a cute little purse that takes almost seconds to make. Then it’s onto attaching the arms using cocktail sticks and edible glue.

In this lesson, Danielle attaches the sleeves and collar to finish the dress off.

Here we see Danielle turn a piece of oval shaped sugarpaste into a lovely feminine shaped head using the most simple tools but with great technique. The key is to make little adjustments at a time otherwise you can make mistakes too big to correct.

Danielle now starts to bring the face to life by adding the eyes using different colours of sugarpaste.

Danielle now paints our models face.

Finally, Danielle shows us how to make the hair for our swinging sugarpaste model.

Paul Bradford joins us to discuss some other potential ideas you could create with the techniques learned in this tutorial.

Paul discusses the potential costs, sale price and margins for this cake.