Skill level: Intermediate
This is a re-make of one of my very early cakes in my career. Since then, it has been pinned, shared and re-posted thousands of times.
I have always had a thing for shiny edible bling on cakes and get many requests on how to re-create these edible jewels. So here it is! How to make the purple bling cake complete with edible jewels and silver piping and gorgeous, life-like gumpaste orchids!
1:07:37 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to make dark purple fondant and royal icing
- Learn how to create realistic sugar orchid flowers
- How to create edible brooches and gems and place them on the cake
- Liz Marek's technique to get piping details to flow through a cake design
- How to place sugar flowers into a dummy cake tier
Tutorial Chapters
- Making orchid petals
- Making orchid center
- Making the buds
- Coloring the orchid
- Assembling the orchid
- Making purple fondant
- Covering cake in fondant
- Making brooches & gems
- Purple royal icing
- Making jewel-encrusted tiers
- Stacking the tiers
- Piping scrollwork
- Painting the scrollwork
- Attaching orchids to the cake