Mini allotment cake

If you love gardening, vegetables and cake decorating, then this adorable mini allotment cake is the perfect class for you! Packed with new skills and clever techniques, you'll create a beautifully detailed allotment scene complete with edible vegetables, textured soil, a cheerful sunflower and rustic finishing touches.

Working with a rich chocolate cake and smooth chocolate ganache buttercream, you'll learn how to prepare and fill your mini cake, pipe the filling and create a perfectly finished top using palette knife techniques. You'll use our incredibly realistic (and utterly delicious!) chocolate soil – a clever technique that everyone loves.

Using sugarpaste (fondant), you'll model a selection of miniature vegetables including potatoes, cauliflower, lettuces and tomatoes, learning how to add colour and detail to bring your allotment to life. You'll also create a beautiful sunflower complete with leaves to add the perfect finishing touch to your edible garden. To complete your design, you'll create a textured cake board and make a tiny fork using a mould.

During this class you will learn:

Tutorial – different types of icings and how to choose them
How to create textured paste
How to ice a cake board
How to prepare your mini cake
How to fill a piping bag
How to pipe filling
How to palette knife the cake top
Tutorial – how to make delicious chocolate soil
How to model different vegetables including potatoes, cauliflower, lettuces and tomatoes
How to make a sunflower and leaves
How to make a miniature fork using a mould
How to add dust colours and realistic shading
Storage and transportation of your finished cake

This fun and relaxed class is suitable for all abilities, and everything you need is provided. You'll leave with a fabulous mini allotment cake and a whole basket of new cake decorating skills to use again and again!