Juggling Christmas Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

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Juggling Christmas
with Paul Bradford
Skill level: Intermediate
HD Lessons: 15
Decorating time: 10 hours
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Bite Sized

Watch Paul make his Juggling Christmas cake in just one minute!

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Highlights

Hand-picked best bits from the entire course!

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1. Building the stand and making it food safe

Before we begin Paul must build his stand to create the internal structure which holds the cake in place. Once you have your stand built it is important that you make it food safe to prevent cross contamination between the stand and the cake, for this cake Paul uses chocolate ganache.

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2. Carving & ganaching the bodies

In this lesson,Paul shows you how to place the cake over the threaded rod so that each character is slightly offset.

 

PAUL’S CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE 

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3. Covering the cakes & board

Paul shows you how to cover the cakes, wrapping around the awkward shapes ending with a clean finish.

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4. Santa's body

First we start with Santa’s body, adding all the features such as the belt and fur coat.

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5. Santa's boots & arms

Next up is Santa’s cute boots and arms.

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6. Making Santa's head

In this lesson, Paul shows you how to make all of Santa’s facial features and how to position the head on the body.

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7. Santa's hat

Now we move on to Santa’s hat!

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8. Lesson 8 – Making the snowman

Paul creates a simplistic Snowman for the cake with a cute hat and scarf that really adds character.

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9. Lesson 9 – Elf’s body & legs

In this lessnn, Paul rolls out the sugarpaste to decorate the elf’s body then adds the legs and feet!

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10. Making the elf’s arms & head

To finish the elf, Paul adds the head then makes the little hat and shows you how to make the perfect little elf ears!

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11. Finishing touches

To bring it all together, Paul steams the cake then adds various snowflakes to hid the bits you don’t want to see!

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12. Other ideas

Some other ideas for the Juggling Christmas cake.

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13. Pro Lesson

Everything a pro needs to know about pricing and distribution.

Juggling Christmas Cake Tutorial

Learn how to make this wonderful Juggling Christmas cake with the multi-award winning Paul Bradford!

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to…

  • internal structure
  • cute Christmas characters
  • gravity defying
  • Sculpting & carving
  • and much, much more

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Paul Bradford

Paul Bradford

Paul Bradford´s mission is to ‘Empower people to achieve their cake decorating dreams’ by providing a range of cake decorating courses and online tutorials through their website, which currently teaches 195,000+ students.  
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