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Painting on Cookies and Cakes: A 3-Part Series
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Cake decorating meets surface design in this comprehensive course for culinary artists. Using icing gel colors, buttercream, decorator brushes and palette knives, long-time Wilton instructor, Robin Mueller, shows how to turn a variety of cake-and-cookie canvases into edible works of art. Best of all, the techniques shown in this series are approachable for all levels, and the cookies can be made in advance for easy entertaining.
Part 2: Surface Designs with Royal Icing and Buttercream
Part 3: Shimmer Effects with Pearl and Color Dust
Learn how to:What You’ll Get:
Here’s what you’ll need:
Part 1: Watercolor Effects with Icing Gel
- Cookies or cakes with fondant or royal icing surface
- Icing gel colors (Robin uses Orange, Pink, Rose Petal Pink, Moss Green, Leaf Green, Creamy Peach, and Red Red)
- White White icing gel
- Lemon extract
- Lollipop sticks or toothpicks
- Decorator brush set
- Pearl dusts and fluffy brush (optional)
- Plate or ice cube tray for palette
- Large glass of water
- Paper towels
- Small bowls for mixing
- Parchment paper
Part 2: Surface Designs with Royal Icing and Buttercream
- A layer cake with a crumb coat of icing
- A cake coated in American Buttercream icing and crusted over
- Cookies flooded with royal icing and dried for at least 24 hours
- Decorator brush set
- Angled spatula
- Cake turntable
- Icing gel colors (Robin uses Orange, Pink, Petal Rose Pink, Moss Green, Leaf Green)
- Clear piping gel
- Decorating bag with a coupler and tip #2
- Bowls
- Paper towels
- Water
- Lollipop sticks or toothpicks
- Small bowls for mixing icing
- American buttercream icing (optional)
- Color and Pearl Dust
Part 3: Shimmer Effects with Pearl and Color Dust
- Cookies covered fondant and dried for at least 24 hours
- Fondant covered cake (option scrap fondant for practice)
- Decorator brush set, including small flat brushes for details and fluffy dusting brushes
- Color Dust and Pearl Dust (Robin uses Orchid Pink Pearl Dust, White Pearl Dust, and Yellow Pearl Dust)
- Lemon extract
- Eye dropper
- Paper towels
- Bowl of water
- Cake turntable
Downloads:
- Detailed lesson on how to “paint” with icing gel colors and tinted icing, decorating cookies and cakes in innovative, artistic ways.
- 15 HD video lessons you can access online anytime, anywhere
- Detailed supplies list
- Step-by-step expert instruction from a certified Wilton instructor
- The ability to leave comments, ask questions, and interact with other students
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Painting on Cookies and Cakes: A 3-Part Series Reviews
576 users recommended this class to a friend
Jude Forler
Fun to learn some new techniques.
Now, I need to remember how to make royal icing!
Thank you for the class
July 28, 2024
Julie Ann Domena
I really enjoyed this class! I've worked with cookies/cake, royal / bc icing, and fondant previously but not in these ways, so I have more great ways to decorate cookies, and cakes of course. Thanks!
July 6, 2024
Kaitlin Brown
Made difficult looking techniques seem much more doable and even fun. Loved this!
More than 3 months ago