Designer Handbag Cakes

Have your handbag and eat it too! Let celebrity cake designer Elisa Strauss teach you to sculpt and decorate an unbelievably realistic couture handbag from cake.

Get a handle on designing handbag cakes, including custom color and texture choices. Fashion the handbag with divots and pleats to form an authentic sense of movement, and create genuine looking zippers, rivets and buckles from gum paste.

Make a handbag so cute you could just eat it up. Sign up now for Designer Handbag Cakes.

What You'll Learn

• To create a to-scale custom template for your handbag cake
• To fashion zippers, rivets, rings, buckles, and grommets out of gum paste for a hyper-realistic look
• New techniques for doweling your cake and applying textured fondant
• To develop dynamic sculpting methods for creating movement in your cake design
• To explore exotic fondant patterns and textures like ostrich, alligator, and giraffe

What You'll Make

• A handbag cake so authentic it could be confused for a real couture handbag

• 11 HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access
• Downloadable class materials, including recipes and supply lists
• Hours of close-up sculpting, texturizing and embellishing instruction
• Answers from Elisa in our virtual classroom

• Watch classes on your own schedule: wherever, whenever you want
• Your access never expires
• 100% money back guarantee

1. Introduction (2:24)

   Meet cake artist Elisa Strauss and learn about the Craftsy platform.

2. Cake Template (7:39)

   Turn your cake inspiration into a template and learn about time management.

3. Color & Texture (20:43)

   Learn fundamental color theory and how to achieve fashionable textures.

4. Sugar Decorations (1:01:26)

   Create details such as buckles, zippers and handles from gum paste.

5. Building the Cake (22:57)

   Build your cake tiers using support boards and dowels.

6. Sculpting & Spackling (33:50)

   Start sculpting and spackling your handbag cake.

7. Piecing the Fondant (25:53)

   Apply alligator-textured fondant pieces to your cake.

8. Adding the Soft Details (34:43)

   Add small, soft details like stitching and color dust to your sugar decorations.

9. Putting It All Together (1:00:00)

   Paint small metallic details and finish your handbag cake.

10. Bonus - Fondant Faux Wood (9:47)

    Shape, emboss and paint fondant to look like a wood board.

11. Bonus - Distressed Leather (4:22)

    Achieve a natural-looking distressed leather texture in your fondant.

System Requirements:

• Supported OS: Web Browser