Cupcake Day - Brand new course!
Upcoming Start Dates
A step by step introduction to cupcakes. The day will begin with you baking a batch of delicious vanilla cupcakes. Whilst the cakes are baking Annabelle will demonstrate how to make pure white vanilla frosting. Moving on you will then make your own traditional buttercream and a range of decorations (stars, hearts, butterflies). To complete the day you will learn how to fill a piping bag and then pipe a range of designs in both your buttercream and the frosting onto your cupcakes. You will be able to choose your preferred colour scheme.
- How to bake vanilla cupcakes
- Tutorial - how to make vanilla frosting
- Tutorial - the difference between buttercream and frosting
- How to make buttercream
- Tutorial - different types of icing
- How to create stars, hearts and butterflies from sugar
- Tutorial - use of colour
- How to create the perfect butterfly bun
- How to pipe a rose swirl
- How to pipe a Mr Whippy swirl
- How to pipe a plain swirl
- How to pipe a ruffled swirl
- How to pipe a french swirl
Annabelle
Annabelle
Director
Annabelle established Confection Perfection (now re-branded as Annabelle Jane Cake School) in 1996 from her kitchen table; bought her first retail premises in 2000 and is now settled in a delightful setting in Bearsted, just outside Maidstone. Annabelle has extensive cake decorating experience and is highly creative and artistic. Annabelle is an accredited tutor for the PME Diplomas in Sugar craft and also designs and delivers a wide range of other highly successful cake baking and decorating classes. Annabelle has a huge vision for our Cake School and ensures that the strong reputation we have earned continues to grow lead by her consistently high standards.
Everything is included - ingredients, frosting, use of equipment, a cupcake box. Students recieve a set of notes and also a 10% discount in the shop (on items used on the course).
You may like to bring an apron and a packed lunch (or there is a local deli a short walk away)
We provide tea, coffee, drinking water and cake.
Really enjoyed the course, fun, learnt lots, lovely day out. Very good tutor, very knowledgeable.
— Sarah Wennink, 24th July 2021
A lovely day learning lots of skills + techniques. A very enjoyable way to spend the day - very therapeutic. What I expected and so much more fun!
— Annie, 24th July 2021
Course was fantastic, learnt so much! Fabulous tutor! Will definitely be back for another course soon. Thank you!
— Georgie, 24th July 2021
I'd recommend. What I expected and very likely to come back. Love having student notes. Health & safety well considered.
— , 24th July 2021