Fondant Ruffles, Pleats & Drapes

Bring couture cake techniques into your kitchen as you learn classic fabric effects in fondant with Marsha Winbeckler.

Learn Marsha’s techniques to make sophisticated cakes with cascading drapes, delicate ruffles and precise pleats. Marsha treats fondant like fabric to create a wide range of fashion-inspired decorations for your cakes. Watch Marsha make a sea of folded, thinned and gathered ruffles. Explore classic pleating styles like box pleats and knife pleats. Form horizontal pleats that look like the gathers of a silk wedding dress. You’ll really feel like a cake designer when Marsha shows you how to fashion an exquisite five-layer ruffled flower and flawless swag drapes.

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What You'll Learn

• How to frill the edges of a ruffle with a CelPin, ball or bulbous tool
• How to make folded and gathered ruffles
• How to use cutters to form ruffle puffs 
• How to color the edges of your ruffles
• How to make a ruffled ribbon and flower
• How to make box pleats
• How to make vertical and horizontal knife pleats using multiple methods
• How to shape soft pleats using a homemade form
• How to make drop, cascading and swag drapes
• How to finish drape joins with ribbon tails and ruffled flowers

What You'll Make

• Stunning fabric-inspired cakes that look like they just walked off the runway

• 8 HD video lessons with anytime, anywhere access
• Class materials that include templates and fondant coverage guides
• Hours of close-up instruction
• Answers from Marsha in our virtual classroom

• Watch classes on your own schedule: wherever, whenever you want
• Your access never expires
• 100% money back guarantee

1. Meet Marsha Winbeckler (6:09)

   Meet your instructor Marsha Winbeckler, an accomplished decorator, teacher and editor.

2. Folded Ruffles (17:09)

   Learn the basics of creating ruffles: rolling, cutting, folding and attaching them to a cake. Add luster and color and even make a sweet ruffle puff.

3. Ruffles by Thinning (22:57)

   Thinning the edges of your fondant adds delicacy when creating ruffle ribbons and rosettes.

4. Box Pleats (5:20)

   Use a former to create exquisite box pleats and arrange those pleats into elegant designs for your cake.

5. Easy Knife Pleats (20:11)

   Make fabric-effect knife and folded pleats and then use a template to add movement and sophistication and learn to add pleats to the top of the cake, too.

6. Horizontal & Draping Pleats (14:28)

   Horizontal and angled pleating are perfect when replicating wedding dresses or other fabric effects and Marsha tackles one last pleating option: gathered pleats.

7. Drapes & Swags (17:21)

   Make opulent swags and drop drapes using a form you can easily make from dowels and a foam board and add extra extravagance with scalloped edges and textured fondant.

8. Cascading Drapes (16:17)

   Marsha demonstrate how to make show-stopping cascading drapes that flow down two-tier cakes. Learn to finish your cake with a ribbon tail, ruffle flower or even a ribbon rose.

System Requirements:

• Supported OS: Web Browser