Sweet Designs by Larissa: Custom Fondant Cakes

[TheCindyProductions]

@Laraluna123 Not really

[Laraluna123]

My name is too larissa, does that mean I can make cakes like you?

[wash4ever]

wow is the cup, and the girl, and the tennis shoe bos eatable?

[holdennailfreak83]

i have one word WOW love it u r very clever

[mznellbell]

OOO HELL NAW YOU BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WHILE!

[fabbodabbo123]

wow wow wow , you are ace at this , i love cake decorating too , its a shame im not too good at it tho < well maybe i just need more practice , but you have now inspired me to do something with fondant :)

[EOSGamePlay]

0:26 (Tea Cup)

1:13 (Bag)

1:33 (Dolls)

And 1:45 (Nike Shoes)

ARE THOSE REALLY CAKES?!! =O

That is AMAZING!

[DEA983]

AMAZING...

[adj803]

OMG YOU ARE SOOOOOOO GREAT AT THIS!!!!! DO YOU MAKE THOMAS THE TRAIN CAKES! CUZ I NEED ONE BAD!!!!!!!!!!

[rareyellowdiamond]

thanks you for your responce. i hope someday soon you have the time to do a tutorial.. thanks i adore you creations

[zachyrazachy]

@Akumawitch.. The shell is made with a mold, they sell them on the cake supply stores.

[zachyrazachy]

@rareyellowdiamond stop asking her, don't you see she doesn't want to answer??? There are plenty of people online willing to help and teach other, go search!!

[rareyellowdiamond]

hi larissa what did u make nemo out of , and did u use a mould for the shell. can you help me to gain technical ability like yourself by telling how to improve or where you learned please.. i think you have done an amazing job.

[loravo]

@rareyellowdiamond

This cake was my very first one I ever made, and by that time I did not have almost any tools :) I used a real shell as a mold, and hand-molded Nemo. Just watched the movie and sculpted on the go. Sorry I don't know how to describe you the sculpting in words, for me it is always easier to show.

[butterflywear]

your work is fantastic.......never give up and keep going like this:)

[JPoirier1999]

O_O i didnt see that the blackberry was a cake.

[rareyellowdiamond]

hi larissa i wondered if u can advise me on how to do the nemo fish plz and if u have any other advise on how to be self taught,

[Akumawitch]

Hey Larissa, I'm just starting a cake business and I hope to make cakes like that but I can't go to school to learn. Did you go to school to learn how to do that stuff or did you find out some other way? Do you know if I can I learn to make cakes like that from videos on youtube?

BTW your nemo cake specifically impressed me, how did you make the shell?

[rareyellowdiamond]

hi larissa can u teach me how to do the nemo plz i think u did an amazing job, if u have any other advice to help me to become self taught like urself i would be grateful

[cELebiFaN]

That's just incredibly awesome!!

[rareyellowdiamond]

hi ur work is amazing would u beable to tell me how u made th nemo fish plz, can i have some advice on how u taught yourself so i can do the same plz i would love to produce work like urs

[rareyellowdiamond]

hi could i ask u how u made the nemo fish plz. if u have any advice for me as im just like u started a few months ago and would love to produce work like yourself, how did you pick up those wonderful techniques,

[BaByRoRo141]

Is the airplane cake made all out of fondant or cake???...

thats really qood...you should be a bakery cheff..=)

[poolegal]

wonderful job!!

[emilandersson91]

fuckin' hell O.O

[blueeyedmommy03]

wow you are awesome!!

[rareyellowdiamond]

omg!!!! how did you get the ideas for these cakes they are soo unbelieveable. can you help me to be able to make something as amazing as that. ie how to do it perhaps.lol u r amazing!!!!

[aRRO9]

Extra, big respect for You!

[maritschie]

wow, the bag looks so reeeeeeeeal!! everythings looks so real! you did a great job!

[uberairbrushexpert]

Absolutely impressive!! I love your work!1 your detail,cleaness and attention to detail is immaculant!! keep up the fantastic work!!

[pbisor]

I have have have to know how you did the purse,shoe, and blackberry!

[jakemcdougall]

how do you make the nemo

[CuteeBeauty]

wow....amazing cakes!!!!

[MickyKathleen]

wait - you have only been decorating cakes for less than a year and you could already make everything shown in ur video?? the shoe box cake - the runway show? how did you learn how to do everything so perfectly so fast???

Whatever it is you are doing, you have a natural gift! I would definitely get into the business if I were u! Great Job :D

[bexhaffner]

wow you are amazing. i would not eat the cake if i got them..theyre too good to eat

[coolestmomintheworld]

Those cakes look so real! The purse cake doesn't even look like a cake. You did an awesome job.

[FallenAngel2737]

Can you do a wolf a white tiger and a mermaid cake please oh and a vampire cake thanks.

[BETTYSWORLD1]

WOW!!! Your work is incredible, you have a real gift, the Nike shoes, the cell phone, the tea cup is WOW!!! I hope you have started your own business.

[liliokilani]

Really, if you jsut started a month ago and that is what you are doing then you have kept a marveloous artist and sculptor inhiding for way too long! Shame on you! LOL! Amazing!

[emilymccurry]

Wow! you are incredible......you really do have a gift....the shoe cake was my fav!

[legatopianist]

Love your designs :) I'm planning on baking and decorating a birthday cake for my husband. I still haven't got any ideas on how the decoration would be. He's turning 29. Sigh..

[rrubbadub1]

isn't it just great when you discover the gift's God has giving you.

[AndreaSPitaim]

Your work is amazing. Congratulations.

Could you please tell me how did you make the strings for the guitar, if they are also edible?

[loravo]

Thank you Andrea,

I think the best way would be Sugar Veil if I had any because it is elastic, so mine are simply fondant. I used polymer clay gun. HTH.

[AndreaSPitaim]

Thank you very much Larissa.

What about butterflies antennae?? Do you also make them of fondant? If so, how can you manage to make them hard and not cracking?

[loravo]

Andrea, my butterflies are made of rice paper. On some of them antennae are rice paper, too. On the others (not shown in this video) I use rice noodles.

HTH.

[andrecahuiich]

omg yours cakes are amazing CONGRATULATIONS you have much talent

[reegurl733]

I love the sneaker cake...very hot!

[sweetpalates]

you make BEAUTIFUL cakes! I love it that they all look clean too!

[lee131010]

thats just like me a few months ago i just fell in love wth cake designing and i love ur cakes beautiful

[9Shattered9]

wow....all your cakes are amazing.........i want to learn how to decorate cakes with fondant....ive never decorated a cake before...but i want to....any tips???

[cakeguru16]

how do you create your picture slideshows w/ music?

can you let me know what website/ program you use?

thanks:)

[loravo]

I used ProShow Producer.

[karinaleongto]

Hello, how did you make the designs for the designer purse.

[hotlava141]

WooooW!!!

[londonaccent]

Very impressive

[PurthePoohBear]

Love ur cakes, cant beleive u are a self taught baker. I am self taught too, though I have a long way to go.

Looking at ur cakes motives me to bake more.

[keritho]

loravo...where do you go to learn new techniques? how do you get you fondant to be shiny/glossy looking (like for th teacup)?  how did you texture the girl's hair (toward the end), make the coral, etc? do you hand-model everything?

[loravo]

keritho,

I learn everything on my own by reading Internet forums and articles, watching YouTube and experimenting.

The teacup is dry-brushed with pearl dust.

The girl's hair is made of fondant, extruded from sugar / clay gun.

Yes, everything is hand modeled, except for the flowers, for which I use Wilton's (and others) flower cutters and tools.

[lindagauthier4]

Your're cakes are truly amazing! I have a couple questions for you....

What kind of fondant do you use?

How do your cakes taste?

I have made my

[lindagauthier4]

first fondant cake and although it looked great i didn't care for the taste...what kind of cake recipe do you use?...If you dont' mind me asking...

[loravo]

Thank you lindagauthier4,

I make my own fondant and flavour it to compliment the taste of particular cake. The taste of it is not even near store bought!

I also never use cake mixes for my cakes, or shortenings in my buttercreams. Only premium ingredients, such as best butter I could get, pure vanilla extract and real vanilla beans, cream cheese, imported chocolate, ets.

I bake from scratch only, and my favorite recipes are from "The Cake Bible" by Rose Levy book.

[lindagauthier4]

Thank you , for the information...cause right now i have been spending most of my time trying desperately to find the right way to do this with a beautfiul cake and and make sure it tastes great too. So any advice is great right now!!!

[absimpson2]

Larissa, are you planning on doing any tutorials of your work? I would love to see some :-) You are amazing!!!

[loravo]

Thank you absimpson2,

As soon as I feel confident and experienced enough to tutor somebody, I'll certainly do so here on YouTube.

I'm still learning about this amazing medium every day myself :)

[arfiedoggie]

wow!

[googlegirl68]

Gosh Larissa, you amaze me!!  great vid!

[aneymath]

What perfection and what great ideas. How did you make that cup and orchid?

Aney

[loravo]

Thank you Aney!

The orchid was made using Wilton's flower cutter set and instructions.

For the cup I rolled my gum paste and placed inside a real china cup. After 2 days of drying I took it out of the cup. Same thing with the saucer. And I painted it with a very fine brush using a mixture of gel paint and alcohol. HTH :)

[merlicakes]

Beautiful Cakes!

[texgrammy]

Super video, Larissa!! I loved it!!

[iphonegurl101]

i can bake cakes just that im definetly not as good as you

[lena2901]

OMG ! after i replay then i knew d tea cup not real. Very great job !!!

[BrownBunzz]

your cakes are beautiful...

[dantwaz]

Thats amazing! You really have a talent for this! Any view to doing tutorial videos? Keep up the baking, it looks like you love it :)

[dantwaz]

a few months? did you make one every day? ha ha. They look fabulous.

[loravo]

Thanks for nice comments :)

I made my first cake (the Nemo Cake) for my son's 2-nd birthday which was 1 year ago. Then 8 month later I made my second one (with pink roses), and was making 1-3 cakes per month ever since :) Not that many actually. ALL of them are in this video.

[cybercharm08]

a couple months!!!!!! more like a few years of experience you mean!!!!! all your cakes are truly lovely!!!!

[honeyzway]

wow youre cakes are amazing!