Cupcake Foundations

If you are new to cupcakes, or wish to learn some great piping techniques and gain confidence in making delicate decorations, then this is the class for you!

This is a full day course and covers the following skills and techniques:

• Choosing a colour scheme - the colours that go and the colours that don't!  Rules for achieving the perfect cupcake colour scheme. 
• A discussion of the types of sugarpaste that you can work with and the techniques for using it to get perfect results every time.  Techniques for colouring your sugarpaste effectively.
• Using a variety of quality cutters to create your decorations, with professional colourings, pastes, lustre dusts, glitter and pearls to make them unique to your own preferred style. 
• Tricks of the trade - how to achieve the right end result - using professional sugarcraft tools and some ingenious ideas to create flawless decorations.
• Buttercream piping techniques - including 'Mr Whippy' swirls, French swirls and two tone piped rose swirls.

Suitable for beginners and those with a little experience.

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 Fabulous Fondant

If you have ever seen amazing fondant covered cakes and wondered how on earth they are made, then this is the class for you!

This is a full day course and covers the following skills and techniques:

• Using Sugarpaste and the ways it can be manipulated to create many different results. 
• Professional techniques for covering a cupcake in fondant (sugarpaste) and achieving the perfect delicately domed cupcake.
• Choosing a colour scheme that is right for your cupcake theme.
• Using silicon moulds to create cameo decorations and how to get perfect results every time. 
• How to make consistently sized edible pearls using sugarpaste and edible lustre dust.
• Creating an amazing bow and the tricks to getting it to look realistic!
• Techniques for stencilling on cupcakes using professional stencils, and the right way to make sure it doesn't 'bleed'.
• How to use embossing mats to create beautiful effects on your cupcakes and capturing the detail with professional edible paint.

Suitable for beginners and those with a little experience.

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 Cupcake Bouquet Class

Make a beautiful bouquet of cupcakes  - all completely hand piped in buttercream!

This is a full day course and covers the following skills and techniques:

• You will be taught how to use five different nozzles to achieve a wide variety of flower effects with your buttercream. You will be given a lot of time and support to practise each technique before going live on your final cupcakes.
• Colouring Buttercream to suit your desired colour scheme
• Finishing your 'flowers' off with beautiful pearls, sprinkles and dusts for a professional finish.
• Assembling a cupcake 'bouquet' from scratch - including plant pot, cellophane and tissue paper wrapping techniques, ribbons and bows, and of course, Cupcakes!

Suitable for those with some piping experience - this is quite an intense course and does NOT include any sugarcraft work...

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Wedding & Occasion Cupcakes

A brilliant class for those planning a large display of cupcakes for a wedding or special occasions. We cover both the theory side of putting together and planning a cupcake tower and the practical side of planning and making gorgeous cucakes!

This is a full day course and covers the following skills and techniques:

• Design Ideas and Colour Schemes:
• Planning a cupcake display
• ‘Statement’ Cakes and ‘Filler’ Cakes:
• Making gerbera flowers, roses, carnations and plaques
• Cutting, veining ad creating beautiful flowers
• Embossing fondant and domed cupcakes

All the equipment, tools and edible materials you need will be provided for you to use during the class.

You will go home with 12 gorgeous cupcakes and an in depth fact pack with photos and explanations of everything we have covered in the class.

Suitable for those with a little experience - it is recommended that students on this class have previosuly attended at least one of our other classes.

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