Skill level: Intermediate
Learn to make a sculpted tiger cake that's all cake! Yep, even the mouth. Liz shows you how to stack, carve, get the right proportions, and make realistic details like teeth, sugar eyes and cocoa butter painting.
2:04:36 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to make a sculpted tiger cake that's all cake (no rice cereal treats)
- Learn how to create a gravity-defying open mouth
- Liz Marek's technique to create realistic fur textures
- How to create realistic sugar eyes, ears, whiskers, teeth and tongue
- Learn how to paint striking colors using cocoa butter
Tutorial Chapters
- Making the structure
- Stacking the cake
- Tip for cardboard rounds in sculpted cake
- How to place skewers
- Carving the cake
- Making cake pop dough
- Defining the snout
- Defining the fur
- Defining top of head
- Carving eye sockets
- Defining furry peaks
- Crumbcoating the cake
- Making tiger eyes
- Insetting black fondant
- Covering with fondant
- Adding fur texture
- Defining sides of head
- Defining brow
- Defining muzzle area
- Adding the ears
- Placing the eyes
- Defining the eye socket and eye lids
- Refining the nose
- Adding the teeth and tongue
- Finishing the muzzle
- Adding chest fur
- Adding cheek fur
- Adding fur to top of head
- Coloring with cocoa butter
- Mixing your own cocoa butter colors
- Painting the tiger
- Painting the stripes
- Painting highlights
- Adding whiskers
- Decorating the cake board
- Final touches