LEISURE COURSES

Cake Decorating Beginners

Course code: H40E117
Type: Leisure Courses
Duration: 6 weeks
Location: Hereford
Fee: Additional Costs - £10.00,FE Tuition - £50.00

About the course

A course to enable you to develop skills and confidence in basic cake decorating techniques required for making a range of celebration and party cakes.

You will learn how to:

– Make and use icings

– Pipe basic shells and scrolls

– Model simple top decorations

– Make flowers using sugar paste and cutters

– Pipe flowers using royal icing

– Create basic novelty designs using sugar paste with food colours and textures

What you could do next

Cake Decorating & Sugarcraft – Intermediate

Key facts

Level: Beginners

Tutor: Dianne Maitland

Course dates: 7th May to 9th June 2024

Length of course: 6 weeks (No class on 28th May)

Study mode: Tuesday evenings, 6:30- 8:30pm

Venue: Hereford Campus, Folly Lane, Hereford, HR1 1LS

Materials Required

For the first session, you will need:

· Notebook, pen

· Apron

At later sessions during the course, you will need the following, however the tutor will advise you further:

· Modelling paste to create sugar flowers

· A cake topper

· Buttercream to decorate cupcakes using different methods of piping

Please note that these materials are purchased at your own expense

Extra costs: A few more items may need to be purchased during the course