Pirate Shark Cake Tutorial | CakeFlix Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Janette shows off her DIY skills and puts her super sturdy stand together. Don’t worry… it’s all quite simple and if you don’t have the equipment, your local DIY shop will.

Janette shows us how to keep it all food safe using some great techniques that keep it all very clean and simple.

In this lesson, Janette begins to create the basic shape of the shark before putting it on the stand. This will make it much easier to work with later on.

Janette adds the cake to the stand, securing it with ganache and then begins to fine tune the shape in preparation for it being ganached.

Janette covers the entire cake in ganache, including the rice krispie treats, and gets rid of any join marks as she goes.

In this lesson Janette shows us how to cover the cake. It looks quite daunting, but follow this lesson and you’ll be just fine. Make sure you work quickly with the paste, not allowing it to dry out.

Janette adds some details such as the fins, the smile and some markings to add character.

Here Janette shows us how to make a cute pirate hat that sits nicely on the shark’s head. Just remember and use something like cmc in the sugarpaste to help strengthen it.

Janette adds some fun details to give the shark a big dose of character.

In this lesson, Janette shows us how to add the shark fin so there’s no mistaking what sea creature it is.

Janette covers the board by adding a cool ripple effect complete with bubbles coming to the surface.

In this lesson Janette adds the shark’s teeth and some extra little details to the board to finish it all off.

Paul shares some other ideas you can try out during this project. We’re sure you’ve some of your own and we’d love to see what brilliant alterations you’ve made.

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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.