Learn to carve and decorate this cute baby bag novelty cake, complete with over 16 accessories! Suitable for beginners.
In this cake project you will learn how to make this fantastic novelty baby bag complete with edible baby accessories! This tutorial is ideal for complete beginners or those who have a little cake decorating experience who want to learn about novelty and carved cakes and also to practice their modelling skills.
What you’ll learn
- Learn to create a striking and detailed novelty cake – suitable even for beginners!.
- Create 2 styles of cute baby booties using templates provided.
- Work with sugar paste (fondant), modelling paste and flower paste to create cute baby accessories.
- Learn a total of 16 baby themed modelled accessories – useful for all sorts of cake designs!.
- Understand best practices for stacking, carving and covering a cake.
- Learn to set the scene with a decorated cake board, featuring hand painted dog motif.
- Gain invaluable advice on how to pace your time when working on a cake like this.
- Impress your friends and family with a professional looking cake ideal for baby showers and baby birthdays!.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- Making 2 types of baby booties –> 3 lectures • 24min.
- Preparing the Baby Accessories – Stage 1 –> 3 lectures • 32min.
- Carving and Covering the Cake Bag –> 2 lectures • 23min.
- Designing and Decorating the Cake Board –> 1 lecture • 10min.
- Baby Accessories – Stage 2 –> 5 lectures • 50min.
- Finishing the Bag and Final Advice –> 1 lecture • 7min.
Requirements
In this cake project you will learn how to make this fantastic novelty baby bag complete with edible baby accessories! This tutorial is ideal for complete beginners or those who have a little cake decorating experience who want to learn about novelty and carved cakes and also to practice their modelling skills.
Guest tutor Nivia will guide you through the process step by step, explaining how to use the templates provided, which pastes are best for which accessories and how to create all the individual baby accessories (there are loads of them!) as well as carving the cake itself complete with strap and pockets.
And you are in very safe hands – Nivia is the queen of novelty cakes having won multiple awards including the coveted Best in Show at the industry gold stand Cake International.
We have also included a tools list for you to use as well as easy to follow templates.
In this tutorial you will learn the following:
- Stacking, carving and covering the cake bag
- How to cover and texture a cake board
- How to transfer an image and hand paint cute dog face and paws
- Using templates to create 2 different types of super cute baby booties
- How to make a baby bottle
- How to make 2 different types of rattle
- How to make a dummy ( pacifier)
- How to make animal themed diaper pins
- How to make diapers, blanket and towels
- How to make a tube of cream
- How to make a bunny blanket
- How to make a brush and comb set
- How to make a stitched polka dot baby bib
- How to adapt your new found skills to other cake designs.
Tip: If you don’t have a pasta roller ( which Nivia uses to roll her fondant), you can also roll the paste by hand with a sugarcraft rolling pin.