What you'll learn

  • 🎂 Master the art of creating impressive novelty cakes, perfect for beginners!
  • 👶 Design two delightful baby booties using our provided templates.
  • 🍰 Craft adorable baby accessories with sugar paste, modelling paste, and flower paste.
  • 🎨 Learn to create 16 unique baby-themed accessories for versatile cake designs.
  • 🔪 Discover the best tips for stacking, carving, and covering cakes effectively!
  • 🖌️ Create a charming cake board with a hand-painted dog motif to set the scene.
  • ⏱️ Receive expert advice on managing your time efficiently when working on cakes.
  • 🎉 Amaze your friends and family with professional-looking cakes, ideal for baby showers and birthdays!

Course Content

Introduction

1 lecture
Introduction

Nivia introduces you to the class and shows you what you will learn.

Making 2 types of baby booties

3 lectures
Use templates to make baby trainers - stage 1
Use templates to make red baby booties - stage 1
Add laces and ruffled flower to red baby booties - stage 2

Preparing the Baby Accessories - Stage 1

3 lectures
Make ribbed baby socks and dummy ( pacifier)
Make baby brush and comb and 2 different types of rattle
Create 2 cute animal themed safety pins

Carving and Covering the Cake Bag

2 lectures
Create the cake bag
Cover the cake bag in sugar paste

Designing and Decorating the Cake Board

1 lecture
Texture the Cake Board and add hand painted dog face and paws

Baby Accessories - Stage 2

5 lectures
Model a baby bottle
Make a tube of cream, assemble the dummy and finish safety pins
Finish baby rattles. Create bag pockets using templates
Finish side pockets. Make towels and cute bunny blanket
Make nappies, baby bib and blanket. Finish the top of the open bag

Finishing the Bag and Final Advice

1 lecture
Finish the Cake Bag with Strap and Flap and learn some final tips from Nivia

Description

🎂 Dive into the amazing world of cake artistry with our novelty baby bag project! Whether you're a beginner or have some cake decorating experience, this tutorial is your ultimate guide to mastering carved cakes and honing your modelling skills.

🔍 Join esteemed guest tutor, Nivia, as she walks you through each step. Learn to use provided templates, choose the best pastes for various accessories, and create an array of delightful edible baby items — and yes, there's plenty to craft! Carve and adorn your cake with realistic straps and pockets, all explained in detail.

🏆 With multiple awards under her belt, including the prestigious Best in Show at Cake International, Nivia is the undisputed queen of novelty cakes. You're in the safest hands!

🛠️ We've also prepared a detailed tools list and easy-to-follow templates for your convenience.

🌟 Here's what you'll learn in this tutorial:

  • Stacking, carving, and covering the cake bag.

  • Techniques for covering and texturing a cake board.

  • Transferring images and hand-painting adorable dog faces and paws.

  • Creating two types of cute baby booties using templates.

  • Making a baby bottle.

  • Crafting two different types of rattles.

  • Creating a dummy (pacifier).

  • Making animal-themed diaper pins.

  • Designing diapers, blankets, and towels.

  • Creating a tube of cream.

  • Crafting a bunny blanket.

  • Building a brush and comb set.

  • Designing a stitched polka dot baby bib.

  • Adapting your newfound skills to other creative cake designs.

💡 Tip: If you don’t have a pasta roller like Nivia uses to craft her fondant, a trusty sugarcraft rolling pin will help you achieve the perfect rolled paste by hand!

🏅 Who this course is for:

  • Beginner cake decorators eager to learn about novelty cakes.
  • Cake hobbyists seeking to improve their basic carving and modelling skills.
  • Cake enthusiasts aiming to master a cake design perfect for children and babies.
  • Intermediate cake decorators ready to elevate their craft.
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