Create unbelievable sports-themed cakes with master decorator Mike McCarey. Make an upright football cake using a gravity-defying structure. Learn to carve your football cake with confidence, cover it in leather-colored fondant, and add details like seams, airbrushed accents, stitching lines, laces and stripes for a game-ready look. Then, lace up an incredible sports shoe cake! Discover how to support suspended cake and carve the perfect shoe shape before you recreate all of the defining details: a textured fondant covering, a modeling chocolate sole, contrasting “leather” panels, stitching lines, laces and more. Give sports aficionados a winning celebration with unbelievable cakes that speak their language!
Overview
Syllabus
- Class Preview
- Getting Started
- Sculpting the Football Cake
- Covering the Football in Fondant
- Final Details on the Football
- Shoe Cake Support
- Sculpting the Shoe Cake
- Draping & Decorating
- Leather & Laces
- Finishing the Shoe Cake
Taught by
Mike McCarey
