Basic introduction to decorating cakes, royal icing, marzipan modelling, sugar flowers and decorating your own christmas cake. Demonstration/practical course. You are required to provide your own ingredients and equipment. Leaflet available. Tutor: Mrs E Kennish.
Equipment you need to bring:
Please do not buy too much initially; it is not necessary to bring all the equipment on the first evening, please bring only the items you may have already at home. I will go through the equipment needed at the first class.
Week 1
Intro to the course, discuss equipment required for the rest of the classes. Introduction to piping skills – Equipment needed: piping tubes no: 1,2,3, stars and small petal (metal seamless tubes), tube cleaning brush (handy, but not essential).
Week 2
Recap on piping skills, and learning to pipe flowers, followed by making moulded roses with sugarpaste – equipment needed: piping tubes and sugarpaste.
Week 3
Basic flower modelling, assembling and colouring/start modelling with florist paste – equipment needed: Flower cutters, cocktail sticks, small rolling pin, colours and dust, scissors, white florist wires (no 26 or 28) and green florist tape.
Week 4
Embossing, stencilling, crimping and brush embroidery - equipment needed: 10” Square cake drum, embosser (such as patchwork cutter), crimper and piping tubes.
Week 5
Cover cake with marzipan, and marzipan modelling - equipment needed: cake, cake drum 2” larger than cake, smoother, marzipan and colours.
Week 6
Covering cake with sugar paste, demo on embossing, modelling with sugar paste and/or marzipan continued – equipment needed: clay gun, patchwork cutters, plaque cutters, rolling pin, sugar paste, embosser, crimpers, garret frill cutter, cocktail sticks.
Week 7
Continue work on own caketop decorations and embellishments on cakes – equipment needed: cake decorating toolbox carrier.
Week 8
To complete cake design.
If you would like to purchase any of the equipment above, I would suggest Butler’s Choice in Douglas, The Complete Cookshop in Port Erin or the Kitchen Department at Tynwald Mills, St John’s. You could also try the internet sites for cake decorating supplies e.g. www.squires-shop.com , or www.almondart.com , or www.cakecraftworld.co.uk , or www.ebay.co.uk
