Photo credit: Ivan Day

Making Sugar Sculpture

GETTY CENTER

Museum Studios



Using traditional tools and techniques, food historian Ivan Day demonstrates how to create sugar sculpture. Day, an authority on British and European culinary history, specializes in the development of sugar as a sculptural medium and is well-known for his recreations of historic meals and table settings.

Learn to ornament an 18th-century twelfth cake using original molds and equipment from the period.


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