Buttercream Essentials 4: Palette Knife Art

  • Cake Decorating, Cake Decorating Certification
118 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011, USA
Mar 16 2021
Jul 09 2022

Schedules

In-person location

118 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Description

Embrace your inner van Gogh and learn the art behind this trending technique! In the fourth of five Buttercream Essentials Certificate classes, brought to you by NY Cake Academy’s Cake Decorating Fundamentals, you’ll learn this recently adapted process to artistically place forms of color and texture using palette knives. Commonly used to create striking, two-dimensional flowers, these decorations purposely do not aim to mimic real life flowers. The result is a rich, intense visual display that appears abstract and modern, much like a painting! Explore different strokes through palette knife drills before learning to create an edible artist palette to begin decorating your very own Palette Knife Flower Cake using Italian Meringue Buttercream.

 

What You’ll Learn:

  • Difference between various types of buttercream

  • How to make an Italian Meringue Buttercream

  • How to use a piping bag, couplers and tips

  • To assemble a cake with a nut paste filling

  • Practice decorating using a turntable

  • Various palette knives and their application

  • Practice palette knife techniques and drills

  • To create and blend colored buttercream

  • How to use gold for finishing

     

*Please note, a one-time purchase of our Cake Decorating Fundamentals Toolkit with Buttercream Supplement is required for in-person students and recommended for live virtual students. Once you've purchased the toolkit, you can use it in any of the 5 Buttercream Essentials classes. Your Cake Decorating Fundamentals Toolkit is transferable to all 15 classes with the appropriate essentials supplement. If you have already purchased this toolkit, please select the class only option when registering.

 

Included in the Cake Decorating Fundamentals Toolkit:

  • Apron

  • Brush, 1/2-in

  • Flower Storage Board

  • Food Color Set, 8 Pieces

  • Knife, Serrated, 3.5"

  • Scissors

  • Scraper, Smooth Plastic

  • Spatula, 10-in Silicone

  • Spatula, 4.25-in Offset

  • Spatula, 8-in Offset

  • Spatula, Silicone Small

Included in the Buttercream Supplement:

  • Cake Comb, 10" Double Sided Square
  • Couplers
  • Flower Nail
  • Piping Bag, Disposable, 12”
  • Piping Bag, Disposable, 18”
  • Piping Tip, Leaf No. 352
  • Piping Tip, No. 852
  • Piping Tip, Petal No. 103
  • Piping Tip, Petal No. 104
  • Piping Tip, Russian 6 Pc Set
  • Piping Tip, Standard Round Tip No. 12
  • Piping Tip, Standard Round Tip No. 2
  • Piping Tip, Standard Round Tip No. 3
  • Piping Tip, Standard Round Tip No. 5
  • Piping Tip, Standard Star Tip No. 21
  • Piping Tip, Star Tip No. 825
  • Spatula, Set Of 5 Diamond Shape Offset Icing
  • Wood Cube For Flower Nail

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