Hand painted 2-tier poppy meadow cake
Upcoming Start Dates
You don't have to be able to paint, you don't have to be artistic - we will teach you exactly how to create clever and beautiful hand painted designs on cakes.
We will bake you 2 madeira cakes. During the day learn to professionally split, fill and crumb coat your cakes. Learn to cover your cakes flawlessly with sugarpaste including sharp edges. You will ice a board and learn how to bake it for the most professional finish. Learn to stack and assemble your cakes with dowels. You will make a poppy from sugar and complete the design with a hand painted meadow scene. This is a cake with a real 'wow factor' and you will go home brimming with new ideas.
- How to layer cakes (each cake will be 4 inches deep)
- How to fill cakes
- How to crumb coat
- How to ice with sugarpaste to achieve a flawless finish with sharp edges
- How to ice a cake board including baking technique
- How to stack a cake using dowels
- How to attach ribbon to a cake board
- How to make an unwired poppy using flowerpaste
- Tutorial - all about colour
- How to create paint using paste colours/ rejuvenator
- How to create paint from cocoa butter and dust colours
- How to acheive the right consistency
- How to blend and layer colour
- How to fix mistakes!
- How to apply dust directly to a cake
- How to use a chocolate melting pot
- How to make tiny blossoms and daisies
- How to transport your cakes
Students will receive 12 paintbrushes to use throughout the day which you then keep and take home with you.
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 - the cakes, board, box, icings, materials and use of equipment. Students will receive 12 paintbrushes to use throughout the day which you then keep and take home with you. Students are also given a full set of course notes as well as a 10% discount in the shop on anything used on the course. We provide tea, coffee, drinking water and cake. You may like to bring a packed lunch.
OMG. So enjoyed doing this cake. I think everyone who wants to move onto another level should try it, you'll surprise yourselves.
— Delenda James, 9th November 2019
Brilliant day. Annabelle was brilliant I learnt so much about painting a cake.
— Sue Butcher, 9th November 2019