Sweet Peas, freesias & carnations
Upcoming Start Dates
Learn how to make these delicate, pretty flowers under the guidance of Annabelle. Very popular for English country style weddings, birthdays and anniversaries these delicate flowers will be the perfect addition to your cake creations. You will make full flowers and buds and create a small spray.
Yes! You really can create breath taking sugar flowers, even if you’ve never attempted anything like it before.
We show you step by step, exactly how to make sweet peas, freesias and carnations and then how to wire them to make a pretty spray.
You’ll learn the skills and principles that will give you the confidence to go on to create your own combinations and other flower varieties. And, if you’ve modelled sugar flowers before, this course will give you a definitive process to create the perfect flowers every time, with hints and tips that you won’t learn from a book.
Tutorial – flower making basics
How to use colour to best effect – how to add colour by mixing in to paste and also how to use dust colours to best effect
How to create sweet peas
How to create freesias
How to create carnations
How to create a wired flower spray
How to use a cake steamer
Storage & transportation of your flowers
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!
Courses are always fun in a relaxed atmosphere. Tailored to all abilities so good for everybody. New courses keep coming and all are great fun. So many skills learned. This course what I expected plus more. Loved the outcome.
— Sharon, 22nd June 2024
It is always so satisfying to make such beautiful sugar flowers from lumps of Sugar paste. Very good tutor + assistant! :)
— Louise, 22nd June 2024
Fun and so enjoyable whilst making something so beautiful. Wonderful tutor. Amazing skills imparted & learnt.
— Gill Fargher, 30th July 2022
Excellent day, with like-minded people. Learnt quite a lot and would like to learn more. Tutor excellent. Course more than expected. Very much recommend.
— Pauline Forder, 30th July 2022
Loved this lesson from the moment I walked in. The tutor was very welcoming & friendly also the fellow friends. Had a fantastic lesson. Brilliant.
— Shailja Sharma, 30th July 2022
Amazing, thoroughly enjoyable day with lovely people and learn so much. Annabelle fantastic and course even more than expected.
— Melanie Maytum, 30th July 2022
Another fantastic day with a group of ladies that all feel like friends chatting, learning new skills and creating beautiful Sugar Paste flowers. Annabelle as always shared all her knowledge in a friendly easy to follow way. Nothing is ever too much trouble. A full day, more than I expected, thank you.
— Lisa Hance, 30th July 2022
Great day out - Annabelle & Lynda really look after you. Fantastic, very helpful & super friendly teaching. A wonderful course, beautiful flowers, perfect for weddings. Very pleased.
— Clare, 30th July 2022
Excellent, demonstration and tuition. Lots of info on the course. 10/10.
— Lindsay Walker, 16th March 2019
Annabelle is an inspiration to novices like myself, excellent, very patient. I will certainly be back for more courses. So much enjoyment & take away something special.
— Wendy Mullings, 16th March 2019
Really helpful to complement all cakes. Excellent tutor.
— Jennie de Hoedt, 16th March 2019
I have done flowers before but doing them again really makes it easier, and will probably do flower again & again.
— Delenda James, 16th March 2019
Super course. I learnt so much. I feel empowered. Sensational course.
— Janet Owen, 28th April 2018
Excellent tutor, very friendly and extremely patient Friendly atmosphere. Learnt a great deal.
— Carol Smitherman, 28th April 2018
Brilliant course run by a superb tutor who was patient + caring. 10/10.
— Sue Butcher, 28th April 2018
This is a sensational course.
— , 28th April 2018
Really happy I did this course. I learnt so much. Amazing tutor.
— Sarah Land, 28th April 2018
Just perfect! Lovely relaxing course.
— Fran Turner, 19th July 2015
Friendly approach with great advice. Lovely course for a lovely flower - very happy.
— Kathryn Waller, 19th July 2015
Pleasant atmosphere, clear instructions and helpful assistance.
— Jo Nolan-Neylan, 19th July 2015
Our tutor, was excellent as usual. Very relaxing course.
— Carolyn, 19th July 2015
Course content was more than I expected. Loved this course and relaxed pace.
— Deborah, 19th July 2015
Brilliant course!
— Susan Bareham, 19th July 2015
Perfect!
— Pam Armitage, 19th May 2015
Enjoyable! Very good tutor who was very good at explaining how to make them step by step and helping you when you got to a difficult part.
— Wendy, 19th May 2015