Pirate Parrot Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Here Janette takes you through the steps to build the main structure to support the cake, and make it food safe.

In this lesson. we’re adding the cake to the support stand, with a few dowels and an extra cake card.

Shaping the cake into the main body shape with tubby belly!

Janette covers the cake in two layers of ganache, showing how to smooth it out on awkward shapes.

Now we begin to dress the parrot. Janette shows you how to make the striped trousers and loose shirt with draping and texture.

Now adding the belt and big buckle details, with a patterned belt end. It’s also time to make the leather boot and attaching a wooden leg.

Janette begins building up the feathers and texture on the neck and head area creating a ruffly beard and arched brow.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to build a lightweight, strong structure for supporting the feathered wing. Then modelling and adding all the feathers.

In this lesson, we will be adding the jacket in panels, and modelling the second arm and hook.

How to model the pirate hat with skull and crossbones

In this lesson, Janette will be adding some shadows and highlights to give depth, and painting all the gold trims.

Here Janette goes over some ideas on changing the design in different ways to create a different parrot version for yourself. She also talks about how the use and adapt the structure for other characters.

Janette explains the costs involved, the time you should expect to set aside for making the cake, and the minimum you should be charging if you are selling to a customer.