Downloadable Course Material
If you would like to approximately match the size of the artwork in the tutorial, print the downloadable files at 100% size. If you require your artwork to be smaller or larger, just adjust the print size accordingly.
3D Swordfish Cake Course Material
This course material contains 7 pages of templates and guides. Pages 2 to 5 need to be cut and joined to present the actual size template of the cake. Page 6 and 7 include actual size templates of the parts.
While not everything on this list is absolutely required, these are the things used in this tutorial video. Of course you are welcome to find alternative ways of doing things and we would love to hear if you’ve discovered an easier method or better tool to achieve good results.
What you will need
- Scissors
- Set of rolling pins
- Set of knives + plastic knife
- Small brush in a cup of water
- Set of palette knives
- Dry & wet towels
- Small brush
- Airbrush set
- Oil spray
- Round nozzle – 6mm
- Cake board – 55cm x 35cm
- A sharp tip pen knife
- Starch (for dusting)
- Needle (to remove air bubbles)
- Transparent plastic sheets (for templates)
- Permanent Marker Pen
- Fondant smoother
- “L” shaped corner tool
Recipes & Ingredients
Cake
- 1 x 450mm x 270mm x 20mm, dark mud cake sponge (1500g mixture – 1350g used)
Decorations
- 1kg Pastillage (600g used)
- 1kg Dark chocolate ganache (650g used)
- 1 Cone of white chocolate (melted)
- Blue liquid colour
- Yellow liquid colour
- Black liquid colour
References
- Printed blueprints and guides (download below)
Recommendations
- Have a wet and dry hand towels to clean knives, blades and cutters regularly to consistently achieve clean cuts. Also be sure to clean the table with your wet towel, and than the dry towel each time you are about to roll out any pastillage. Use a bit of shortening or vegetable fat to prevent the pastillage from sticking to the table.
- This is art, and no method or technique is set in stone. This is why we recommend you watch the entire tutorial first before you start gathering all the things in the list above. You may think of ways you might substitute tools or techniques with your own ideas.
I love it!!
Hi, can you please tell me what to look for in the specifications for best air pump. This is something new for me. And I would like more info, please. Thank you very much for your help and prompt attention.
Kind regards
Yolanda
Hi Yolanda You have to look at e bay for air brush sets which is top loading and comes with compressor. Top loading means it has a little cup on top, not a bottle under need the brush. Around $ 50 . make sure voltage is according to your country 110 or 220-240
My only feedback to help you guys out, as you all invest so much time and effort preparing, is around the recording. It seems like the camera that does the top shooting and the one on Yener’s right side are not showing in “true colours”. This becomes apparent when Yener does his airbrushing as the colours look greenish (e.g. top: 1:52:37, right:1:54:33), whereas the frontal and left cameras show them in its true blue form (e.g. left: 1:46:00, front:1:53:10)….hope that helps
Hi Safiye, Yes we are aware of these colour and contrast issues. It is because we are using some old cameras. We have plans to upgrade those particular cameras in the near future 🙂