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Highlights
Here we have carefully selected the key parts from the entire tutorial and condensed it into an 13 min long video. More than enough to get you started without taking too much time.
1. The design
Paul talks us through his design ideas as well as show us how to make the templates used to create the various shapes. The templates are available for download too, if you want to keep things nice and easy.
2. Carving the body
Paul shows us how to carve a shell shape from lovely chocolate mud cake using a long serrated knife. He then covers it in ganache, in preparation for covering it.
3. Carving the head
Paul follows the same steps as before but this time with the head.
4. Building up the face
Paul uses a sausage of sugarpaste to form the eye sockets and other features of the turtles face before covering the cake.
5. Covering the body
In this lesson, Paul shows us how to cover the body and shell by using the templates for guidance.
6. Decorating the board
Paul shows us a simple but great way to paint the board to create a lovely ocean feel.
7. Painting the head and body
Paul now focuses on painting the shell using various dusts mixed together to create lovely warm tones.
8. Painting the shell
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9. making the flippers
Paul rolls out thick pieces of sugarpaste and then uses his own templates to cut out the flippers.
10. Painting the spots
Paul now adds the famous spots using brown tones and tries to put them on fairly randomly.
11. Painting the mouth
Paul focuses on the mouth and tries to make it as cute as possible.
12. Adding the eyes
Paul adds the eyes with large pieces of sugarpaste and then paints them. He also adds sausages of sugarpaste to give it cute eyebrows. Then it’s a just a case of giving it a spray (one it’s all dry enough) and we’re done!
13. Other ideas
Here Paul shares some other ideas you can try your hand at when making this cake. We’re sure you have some of your own great ideas and we’d love to see what you come up with.
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14. Pro lesson
In this lesson, Paul shares some insider information about the cost to make this cake, as well as pricing, portions and other vital information for any professional cake designer.
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