Perfect French Macarons #2 - Designer Macarons
What you'll learn
- Learn the secrets of creating macaron cookies in any shape you like
- Master a huge variety of decoration skills and techniques for cookies, cakes and desserts
- Work on many unique macaron designs and learn how to customize them to any theme or concept
- Learn how to assemble macarons as traditional cookies as well as macaron lollipops
- Discover how to create stunning display cakes to show-off your macarons
- Explore critical tips and tricks, that will take your macarons to the next level
- Advance your baking & decorating career and become a well-rounded decorator
Requirements
- No previous baking or cake decoration experience is necessary
- Some standard decorating tools are required (i.e. cutters, stencils) - can be purchased through the class store or elsewhere
- For some decorations you'll need silicon molds - can be purchased through the class store or elsewhere
- Some baking utensils such as pastry bags and pastry tips are also required
Description
Elevate your macaron cookies to the next level, by decorating them with stunning presentations and showing them off using magnificent display cakes.
Developed by award-winning pastry chef and cake decorator Irit Ishai, this course is designed to inspire and empower aspiring decorators with a huge array of decoration techniques, that can be used for many kinds of cakes, desserts and cookies.
- Create many unique macaron designs: elegant, modern, cute, ethnic and much more
- Discover how to create your own designs and customize them to any theme or event
- Learn great techniques for making stunning display cakes to show off your macarons
- Master a huge variety of decoration skills and techniques for cookies, cakes and desserts
- Discover the secrets of creating macaron cookies in any shape, size and color you like
- Learn how to pipe royal icing like a pro to create intricate and elegant decorations
- Explore brushed embroidery techniques for sophisticated lace-like elements
- Work with modeling chocolate and fondant to make flat and 3D decorations
- Master the art of creating stunning patterns and textures using specialty decoration tools
- Discover critical tips and tricks, that will take your macarons to the next level
- Advance your baking & decorating career and become a well-rounded decorator
Designer Macarons is the second course in CakeNuvo’s Perfect French Macarons series, which has a goal of helping you to become a master macaron maker.
Note that while the first course in the series teaches how to make amazing macarons from scratch, the focus of this course is decorating and presenting your macarons and creating stunning and customized edible creations.
You don’t need to know how to make macarons from scratch to benefit from this course, as it covers easy ways for making or getting macarons to decorate.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner to advanced bakers and pastry cooks interested in developing their decoration skills
- Anyone interested in a cake decoration career
- Professional and aspiring macaron makers who want to take their macarons to the next level
- Anyone who's seriously interested in cookie decoration
- Anyone who wants to learn a huge variety of decoration skills and techniques
- Beginner cake decorators who want to learn how to make display cakes
Instructors
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 2,561 Reviews
- 9,082 Students
- 9 Courses
CakeNuvo provides high-end online video classes in cake decoration and baking art, guiding students step by step through their journey in the art of cake design, and encouraging them to unleash their imagination and creativity. Starting from basic methods and reaching the most intricate and awe-inspiring designs, every online class provides students with detailed and structured demonstrations, and is packed full with unique techniques and battle-tested tips and tricks, which can only be learned through real-life experience.
CakeNuvo’s classes are exciting to watch, and address the needs of enthusiasts and pros alike. We believe that almost everyone can learn cake design! Our focus is on helping you to create stunning cakes, desserts and other baked creations, and we provide you techniques and tools to do this in an easy and consistent fashion. We make sure to break down even the hardest tasks to simple and achievable objectives, and hold your hand and guide you to make sure that the end result is beautiful and awe inspiring!
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 2,488 Reviews
- 8,917 Students
- 5 Courses
I'm an entrepreneur and award-winning pastry chef, with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of baking, pastry art and cake decoration.
I worked at several fine-dining restaurants, designing innovative recipes and plated desserts. Most notably, I've been head pastry chef at the famed Manresa Restaurant (currently 3 Michelin stars), named one of the world’s 50 best restaurants By Restaurant Magazine. At Manresa I collaborated with renowned chef David Kinch, winner of the Iron Chef competition.
I perfected my chocolate-making skills working under master pastry chef Pascal Janvier, who was named one of the top 10 pastry chefs in America in 1998 and 1999 by Chocolatier Magazine.
Building on my extensive fine-dining experience, in 2004 I founded "Sugar Butter Flour", a European-style pastry shop and bakery, which specializes in high end custom cakes, desserts, chocolates and wedding cakes. It became one of the most successful and widely recognized bakeries in the Silicon Valley, with 2 retail stores and dozens of large high-end wholesale customers.
In 2011, after 8 long and fulfilling years, I sold Sugar Butter Flour and established CakeNuvo, an online school for pastry art, where I'm lead instructor and course designer. CakeNuvo's courses all became category-leading best sellers in Udemy.