Handbag Heaven pt 2 Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

In the first lesson of Part 2,  we see Paul finishing the stand by adding some clever pieces of metal that will hold the cakes in position so we don’t need to worry about the stand collapsing.

In this lesson, Paul stacks the last of our handbag cakes onto the plate. He then begins to hide the plates by covering the bottom of the handbags with sugarpaste.

This is when Paul starts to fall in love with the cake again and what a difference the handles make! Paul then combines some lovely moulds to make modern feeling flowers to decorate the cake.

Here we see Paul carefully select and add flowers to the cake, arranging them in a way that hides sections of the rod, using pieces of sugarpaste and royal icing.

In this lesson, Paul creates the woman’s body and decides where to place her on the cake.

Paul now makes the head using some lovely flesh tone modelling paste from Saracino and creates a lovely feminine face.

In this final lesson Paul makes the hair using a very simple but effective technique that gives the illusion of full bodied hair with very little work.

Paul shares some other ideas that you can implement using a similar design to this tutorial.

Paul offers our Pro members advice on how to price a cake like ‘Handbag Heaven’