whats up youtube welcome to man about cake I am your host Joshua John
Russell I'm a sugar artist and a pastry chef and your resident cake slayer
joining me is my all male crew which is not weird at all that four guys would
just be hanging out talking about cake but that's what we do so today this man
is all about floral
wreath cakes it's a trend that's popping up on the internet it's kind of all over the
place
I enjoy it I'm gonna break it down today we're going to build a cake we're going
to make some sugar flowers and put the whole thing together so let's get
started
ok so let's get started building our chocolate cakes we're actually going to
do a three tiered cake i'm going to do a 9-inch round six inch round and a 3 inch
round by the way if you want these recipes you can click the I the top of
this video or all the recipes are in the description
I'm gonna start by leveling my cakes you can do this with a ruler
I kind of like to be a little bit more organic so I'm just going to divide this
cake in half so we have two layers so then we'll end up with six layers very
sticky cake very sticky
so now we're going to fill the cakes with a little bit of chocolate ganache
chocolate buttercream and a drizzle of actual chocolate in between the layers
this will give a nice crunch component for later
extreme chocolate close up I'm just going to continue building the cake
layer cake layer of ganache layer of buttercream drizzled another layer of
cake - we've got all six layers together
this is going to be epically good. I need a hype man. Remember in the nineties like
the guy groups that had like the one guy had the super deep voice that never
saying but at the end was like a girl
this cake is gonna be so good can you make my voice deeper though girl this cake's
gonna be so good I'm gonna put that buttercream in between the layers just
like you like it - thick, too, girl
alright so now we're going to get him in the cooler and he'll firm up and we're
ready for a crumb coat
so now their cakes have firmed up and their chilled i'm just going to give it
a slight shave on the site and then I'm going to level the top right now we're
going to ice it was just a very thin layer this is a crumb coat
trusty scraper and then we'll do the same with the top just come across it
done
so now that our crumb coat is completely chilled to the touch we are actually
going to do the final coat now so it's the same buttercream just chocolate
buttercream
but we're going to bring it all the way out to the edges let's start with the
top and then we will I sides
now the final code is done i'm gonna put this back in the fridge to chill before
we apply the modeling chocolate
I'm gonna do the same thing to the other tiers
so now the cakes are they have your final coat and a chilling in the fridge
we're going to talk a little bit about modeling chocolate you want to make this
the day before and let it sit out overnight so that it hardens and it
literally hard it like a break so we're going to actually need this into a
multiple paste that we can roll it out and wrap it around our cakes little
elbow grease
I have very audience there's nothing wrong with that so I'm like a little
oven can't help but have a high metabolism
anybody want to taste it like a giant slab of tootsie roll
delish you have to eat that whole thing to name just call that lunch around here
is a good workout actually they didn't step up
stacked bringing now we're done now it's completely pliable we can roll it out
and cut it into panels to wrap around our cake
I've got a little piece of modeling chocolate here I've got a rolling pin
I like this one especially because you can put these bands on the side here
it's consistently think all the way across
so I'm actually gonna cut this down a little bit because we're going to trim
it on the cake
I don't want to hang over too much so I'm just gonna make a nice little circle
e thing
make sure there's no air bubbles so I got a really really sharp blade that's
important and i'm just gonna cut into the cake that will be our starting point
and then we'll just follow the cake all the way around so it's a little bit
jagged but once we put the round piece on around it we actually will smooth
this edge and it will become more perfect little over 5 inches
I'm going to go five and a quarter and I'm going to turn the top kind of like
we did the side by the way I would have a cake ruler at home just a ruler that's
just for cake is out
I don't know what you're measuring James cake ruler just going to roll out and
make sure we're going to clear that five and a quarter them cleared it
so now i'm going to actually roll it out lengthwise there's a bubble
gonna pop this bubble with a an exacto knife you can use a needle if you want
but the best thing about modeling chocolate that you can just rode over
the mission it comes right off
tag no bubbles that's not a real in this should be a real hashtag
I feel like that's probably good
all right so I'm going to cut a straight edge for our starting point and then
we'll cut a straight edge all the way across for our bottom
I'm just going to roll it up that's a real 50 role so corny
and then the straight edge of the cut is actually the bottom edge
so now we have these two pieces that overlap I'm going to cut them right in
the middle of one piece off all the other piece off and will be perfect
alright so now we're going to cut around the top kind of like we did before the
cake surgery
so now that i'm done i'm just kind of running my hand over the modeling
chocolate you get rid of any flaws with the heat of your hand
all right now the cake is all panel I'm going to put it back in the cooler and
i'm going to pass on the other two and then we'll stack the cake just keeps
getting heavier now so since the tier on top here is a six-inch have a six inch
board
so this will be my guide to tell me exactly where I should put my dolls
Lucas cure and score it now we will insert our bubble tea straws all the way
down make sure that the pointy side is up in two trim me so you have a flat
surface i'm just going to take scissors flush to the cake will pull it up flip
it and now through the magic of television
I'm gonna do this very fast all right now that we are all stacked and level we
are going to do a grizzly Rubby type chocolate texture so i'm using a bottle
this is actually not cooler this is coating chocolate because we cover the
whole cake
we want to make sure that when it sets we can cut through it and added a little
bit of oil so it's even softer and i'm just going to paint it on its going to
look crazy at first you guys anything like what the heck is this guy doing
once it's set and we add a little bit of gold - it's a really really cool effect
to the chocolates going to start to set as you put it on so just work in
sections and you want it to not be perfect it needs to have some texture to
it because the gold will pick up the light will look really cool
we call this technique grizzly
20 p can be trained like that
ok now that we have the whole cake covered and know that she looks crazy
but once we paint over this with gold it's going to look like a magical tree
trunk
so I'm just going to dip my brush and a little bit of powder gold
I'm not covering the whole thing and just dusting over it so parts will catch
the light kind of looks like Dragon Skin right right there's like dragons team
guys
boom now that we're done with that we're now going to start the wreath
so it's time to make our sugar flowers for our floral wreath
I'm starting with this pink sort of gum paste i'm actually going to end up
dusting it read later but i wanted to have a little bit of color in there so
I'm not taking white all the way to read
I'm gonna roll the pace out so gum paste it actually dries out really quickly
you want to make sure you always keep it covered so now i'm going to actually
find this out
so I'm just going to stretch this guy the returning one edge and keep the
bottom a little bit thicker that's what's going to wrap around the actual
cone
so to glue this on to the cone i'm actually use a little bit of pasteurized
egg white
I'm just going to brush the comb and we're going to wrap this guy around them
and flower be a guy
ok so this is going to be just our little bud
now we got our start the next round will be three pedals
alright so we're going to wrap these around one by one
hold all the petals on and then we'll have to take and stick the places that
aren't stuck down
you don't really have to worry about the bottom as much because we're going to
put a K looks on this and you won't see any of this
this can kind of grows at the bottom it will be covered up so that's going to be
our first stage
that's for the three now we're going to add the five to make sort of a small to
medium-sized rose
we're going to add one more round of five petals to get a little bit bigger
of a rose and then we'll start to build our b school
no flower thing just go no one ever opened a real flower by blowing in it
now
so now because this is our last row want to be a little bit more open i'm
actually gonna open some of the pedals up a little bit and we'll pinch some of
them they look like an actual real rose to make a bunch more of these and
they're going to set them aside to dry and it will work on our lives
so the leaves are made a little bit differently because we're not building
them on a cone so we have to actually roll out the gum paste on a board like
this it has some grooves so then when you pull the paste-up boom
now we have our little crevices or we can actually insert the wire
you can use the leaf cutter here actually prefer cutting my leaves by
hand
my hair is really out of control it's getting bigger and bigger anything
I don't know what's happening as the day goes on it like she's like goes to Jesus
I don't know everything now we're going to insert the wire and then we're going
to vein it over at the soul of aiding tool you could actually do this yourself
with like addressing tool but I kind of had this guy for like I don't know 10
years so I'm a taper the leaf off onto the wire and put it on the banner and
we'll take a little piece of phone like this mean it
you don't have to make that sound you can be gentle pull the guy off
will do the same thing to his little brother here so if you leave the leaves
just like this they're going to dry like they were electrocuted
so I cut a piece of my bed I'm just kidding that actually is very self help
i use either crumpled-up foil or a piece of this what you call this egg phone and
great not memory phone right now so see now that if I just lay them over this
will have a little bit of life and they look like release
so easy we're going to do the same thing with these actually there are roses
leave them overnight so they dry hard and we're going to dust everything we've
got it does the ugly underside - here's our beautiful red rose that will soon be
turned into a floral wreath
swear swear we're getting there and it's going to get this
do you want me to world you want to roll this because I can do either they're all
the hay grassy green on this side
maybe a little dark in the middle blend it all together
do the same thing on the back side and then I actually like to add to the
leaves whatever color my flowers are going to be just a touch of red
just right here to the bottom Jimmy tutorial and Brandon who
so now that all of our leaves and flowers are dusted we're going to start
to put the floral wreath together
I'm actually added a couple of calyces to the roses and i'm going to show you
how to do one at a little glue to him and then we'll just bring them all the
way up now it's finally time to put our floral wreath together
so now that this site is done i'm gonna show you the key to how to make this
it's to anchor this flower and then work on this spray and then this spray to
complete the arc so this pick is a little bit larger that's what we used
for this guy but he's too large for this flower
so what I'm going to do is actually use a straw so then we're prayer protecting
the cake but we're not using something that's ginormous that we can't cover up
so I'm just going to make a tiny little hole exactly opposite of this flower my
exacto
I don't have my strong piece and that will be where that guy sits so now we'll
build the ark
so I'm gonna start by making a bottom side of the arc i'm going to start with
that tiny leaves and take my way up adding a smaller rose and some filler
flowers that i bought from the store with each one I'm just wrapping the tape
around and going on to the next one until i reach the medium sized rose
then i connect it to the medium sized rose and start on the top part of the
arc now I take it all together and anchor it into the straw for the final
touch I'm going to add a large rose next to the focal point and do the same thing
with the straw
so the wire did not touch the cake thank you for joining me on our very first
episode of
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