Skill level: Intermediate
This Kintsugi Cake is the hottest trend in cake decorating right now. Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of fusing together broken pottery with a mixture of resin and gold or silver powder. This pottery is considered to be more beautiful for having been broken.
I really loved that message and wanted to combine that technique with a new take on the popular mineral trend. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a stunning wedding cake with an impressive crystal center complete with growing sugar crystals and hand-painted gold kintsugi. This cake is sure to wow!
45:53 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to carve the cake to create a beautiful natural geode design
- Learn how to create the crystal details within the geode
- Liz Marek’s special technique to paint the kintsugi design onto the cake
Tutorial Chapters
- Building the structure
- Edible and Non-Edible
- Stacking and Carving
- Covering in fondant
- Adding rock candy
- Paneling
- Sanding sugar crystals
- Making isomalt crystals
- Painting
