Vintage Cupcakes
Upcoming Start Dates
This course is jam packed with so many wonderful techniques. You will be amazed at how much you can learn in just a day. We will bake a batch of delicious cupcakes for you so you can focus on the decoration. Learn how to pipe a surprise filling into your cupcakes, how to cover a cupcake to achieve a smooth finish and also how to achieve a perfect dome. You will use texture mats and cake lace. You will learn a whole range of decorative techniques include moulds, crimping, frills, ruffles and bows as well as flowers. There will be emphasis on the use of colour and how to enhance your designs with edible pearls. This course is perfect If you want to learn about the differnet icings available to the cake decorator and how to choose them - you will work with sugar paste, modelling paste, flower paste, royal icing and cake lace. Use royal icing for basic piping, brush embroidery and stencils. We are very excited about this course - it has been developed in response to customer requests and we think these cupcakes are delightful!
- Tutorial, the perfect cupcake and how to achieve an even rise and flat top
- Tutorial - what is sugar paste and how to use it
- How to cover a cupcake to acheive a flat top
- How to cover a cupcake to achieve a perfect dome
- How to pipe a surprise filling inside your cupcake
- How to achieve texture effects in icings
- Tutorial - what is royal icing and when to use it
- Basic piping techniques
- Brush embroidery
- Tutorial - what is modelling paste and how to use it
- How to use moulds
- What is petal base and how to use it
- Metallic paint effects
- How to use edible pearls to enhance your designs
- How to create pearls (that are all exactly the smae size!)
- How to make bows from icing
- Crimping techniques
- How to make frills and ruffles from icing
- How to use cake lace (we will have made the lace in advance - to learn how to make lace see our mini workshop - Introduction to cake lace)
- How to make basic blossom flowers
- How to make ruffled flowers
- How to use the dove plunger cutters
Everything is included
Friendly welcome. Barbara is an amazing tutor and very friendly.
— Grace, 1st November 2014