Cakes in Full Bloom
Erin Gardner
Class Preview
- In-depth Instruction; over 102 mins
- On-demand video access anytime
- Bonus downloadable PDF resources
- Access to class Q&A
Designing Cakes
9:38
Join your instructor, cake designer Erin Gardner, as she explores the important principles behind the art of floral arrangements, including how to use color to bring harmony to your designs. Finally, Erin discusses the importance of sketching your designs and demonstrates how the same elements can be combined to create vastly different cakes.
Statement Flowers
32:36
Add to your sugar-flower garden as you learn how to make a lush open peony with wired petals, a bright honeycomb dahlia with hand-formed petals and Erin's signature ranunculus -- three of the most on-trend flowers!
Filler Flowers
8:09
Accent your beautiful statement flowers with colorful hellebores, charming eucalyptus leaves and buds and irresistibly modern billy balls.
Confetti Cake
20:01
Erin shares her secret for making fun and easy confetti as well as how to create a shimmery cake with matte polka dots. Then she demonstrates how to attach flowers to a foam dummy tier for maximum visual impact.
I Heart Cake
14:28
Cover your top tier with golden edible sequins and your bottom tier with horizontal stripes as Erin guides you through this eye-catching cake. You'll learn how to apply bold stripes that line up perfectly, create playful inlay hearts and attach flowers to a real cake.
Monoglam Cake
17:05
Glamour never tasted so good! Erin demonstrates how to make gilded bows, attach vertical stripes and design and affix a large arrangement of flowers, including your show-stopping peony, dahlias, ranunculuses and all of your captivating filler flowers.
Description
Use modern design principles and cake artist Erin Gardner’s smart techniques to create radiant, floral-inspired cakes. You’ll make statement flowers like the open peony, honeycomb dahlia and trendy ranunculus, as well as fun fillers like billy balls, eucalyptus leaves and hellebore flowers. Then, decorate Erin’s Confetti Cake, covering one tier with vibrant rainbow confetti and the other with an understated pattern of matte dots set against a shimmering background. Decorate the I Heart Cake with a top tier encrusted in gold sequins and a bottom tier of horizontal stripes with inset hearts. Bring the Monoglam Cake to life with a gilded topper, vertical stripes and a Swiss dot pattern of gilded bows. Complement enticing cake designs with vibrant sugar-flower arrangements that make an irresistible showpiece for any event.
Erin Gardner
After developing her cake skills as a pastry chef in numerous New England kitchens, Erin's cake decorating adventure led her to New York City for a sugar-flower class with Ron Ben-Israel. Erin would eventually meet up with Ron again, this time on an episode of his Food Network show, Sweet Genius, which she won. Today, Erin's shop, Wild Orchid Baking Company, has been named by both Brides Magazine and Martha Stewart Weddings as one of the best in the country. Brides also included a cake of Erin's as one of America's Prettiest Wedding Cakes. Her first book, Great Cake Decorating, was released in 2014.
Bonus materials available after purchase