Designer Handbag Cakes

Elisa Strauss

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4:40:28

In-depth Instruction; over 281 mins
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Available for purchase: $39.99

Introduction

1:49

Meet cake artist Elisa Strauss and learn more about her class!

Cake Template

7:19

Turn your cake inspiration into a template and learn about time management.

Color & Texture

20:25

Learn fundamental color theory and how to achieve fashionable textures.

Sugar Decorations

1:00:45

Create details such as buckles, zippers and handles from gum paste.

Building the Cake

22:39

Build your cake tiers using support boards and dowels.

Sculpting & Spackling

33:38

Start sculpting and spackling your handbag cake.

Piecing the Fondant

25:40

Apply alligator-textured fondant pieces to your cake.

Adding the Soft Details

34:31

Add small, soft details like stitching and color dust to your sugar decorations.

Putting It All Together

59:47

Paint small metallic details and finish your handbag cake.

Bonus: Fondant Faux Wood

9:43

Shape, emboss and paint fondant to look like a wood board.

Bonus: Distressed Leather

4:12

Achieve a natural-looking distressed leather texture in your fondant.

11 Lessons

4 hrs 41 mins

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Get a handle on designing handbag cakes, including custom color and texture choices. Sculpt your cake into a fashionable handbag with divots and pleats to form an authentic sense of movement; and create genuine-looking zippers, rivets and buckles from gum paste. Learn new techniques for doweling your cake and applying textured fondant. Develop dynamic sculpting methods; and explore exotic fondant patterns and textures like ostrich, alligator, and giraffe. Make a handbag so cute you could just eat it up.

Elisa Strauss

Elisa Strauss founded Confetti Cakes in 2000. She is a graduate of Vassar College and The Institute of Culinary Education, where she received a degree in pastry and baking arts. Elisa also spent one semester studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to culinary school, she worked as a designer for Ralph Lauren. In fact, it was a cake she made for Ralph (in the shape of a Bugatti, his favorite sports car) and the heaps of praise it received from fashion industry notables that inspired her to bring her design talents to the kitchen full-time. Her creations have appeared on the Today show (one of her cakes was selected as the winner of the “Today Throws a Wedding” series), Sex and the City (she made Charlotte and Harry’s wedding cake during Season Six), The View and Martha. Elisa has also been featured on The View, and has appeared several times on the Food Network, including the “Extreme Cake Challenge” where she won the grand prize. Confetti Cakes has also been featured in InStyle, Martha Stewart Weddings, Marie Claire, Seventeen, Elle, Vogue, Modern Bride, New York magazine, BRIDES, Elegant Bride, The Knot and in 2008 was selected as one of America’s Top Ten Pastry Chef’s in Pastry Art and Design. Elisa’s first book, The Confetti Cakes Cookbook: Spectacular Cookies, Cakes and Cupcakes from New York City's Famed Bakery, was released in Spring 2007 and is in its seventh printing, and her second book entitled Confetti Cakes for Kids was released in the Fall of 2008. Along with Marvelous Molds she has created a line of fashion cake decorating products. She currently teaches private cake decorating lessons in her studio and teaches online classes at Craftsy.com.

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